An article in today’s New York Times ties in to the whole New Years resolution tradition and notes:

Surely by now you’ve heard of the psychologist Walter Mischel’s famous marshmallow experiments, in which children who could resist the temptation to immediately eat one sweet would be rewarded with a second sweet about 15 minutes later. Professor Mischel found that those who could wait — those who had self-control — were also the ones who had better academic and professional success years later.

I am pretty sure that my past self would have eaten the marshmallow and then ransacked the room to find the bag with the rest of the marshmallows in it and then eaten all of them, too.

Good thing, though, because if I had any reasonable amount of this so-called “grit,” I would be so successful that everyone would hate me as much as they hate Lena Dunham.