Career Opportunities: Children with this trait are at the forefront

In Stanford University, four-year-olds sit in a room and wait. There is a single marshmallow on the table in front of them.

The Austrian psychologist and Harvard professor Walter Mischel gave you a choice: you can eat the marshmallow candy right away, or wait a few minutes for it to come back into the room. For those who are patient, Mischel has a second marshmallow with him.

Mischel developed the so-called Stanford Marshmallow Experiment in the 1960s to investigate the connections between behavior and later educational path…