From the time they are born, to the time they leave for college, all parents only have one concern-- will my child be successful in the world? Of course, this worry for some parents starts even earlier and they do their best to give their offspring the best start they can including playing Mozart or self improvement tapes during the child bearing months! But the intensity increases from the time when the offspring arrives and his or her first first words are awaited with bated breath.Even as most parents enjoy their children, they are also keenly aware that the first few years of life is when the future character of the child will be formulated. There is at least one theory which states that the lifelong character is formed in the first five years.
So it is no wonder that some of the modern research seeks to find if they can determine what will make a particular child a success when he or she grows up. One of these experiments postulates that if the child is able to abstain from instant gratification when he is less than five years old and is able to show some self disciploine in face of temptation, it is an indicator of likely success. And they formulated a test-- yes a test - for four year olds to determine this.
Watch Joachim de Posada demonstrate the indicator of success in this charming video
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