The Marshmallow test : understanding self-control and how to master it
Walter Mischel
- London : Bantam Press, c2014.
- 326 p. ; 25 cm.
Draws on decades of research and life examples to explore the nature of willpower, identifying the cognitive skills and mental mechanisms that enable it and showing how these can be applied to challenges in everyday life - from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement.