On The Blue Line Podcast

Don’t Eat the Marshmallow | MONDAY MORNING ROLL CALL | Episode 038   Monday Morning Roll Call is released every week by On The Blue Line and provides a short overview of issues that matter to you and provides encouragement for the week ahead.   In this episode we discuss: This week, I tell a story from my teenage years about delaying gratification. I discuss “The Marshmallow experiment," which is properly titled:  The Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification.  Mischel, Walter; Ebbesen, Ebbe B.; Raskoff Zeiss, Antonette  [Article] Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. 21(2):204-218, February 1972. Lastly, I discuss the importance of remembering the promise of a future reward that is greater than your temporary circumstances in order to keep in track in delaying gratification.    After the episode:  Get your On The Blue Line Decals, today! Consider supporting us for as little as $1 per episode: Visit our Patreon Page. Be sure to check out our video’s on our YouTube Channel.