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Marshmallow-Flavored Strippers

There is no such thing as will power.  How do you say, "No," to a temptation?  The best advice is to avoid temptation in the first place.  Yet that is not will power.  That is avoidance.  Will power is letting a stripper sit on your lap while you get "in the moment," embracing the experience.  Instead of embracing the experience, you'd distract yourself.  You'd think about something else.  Otherwise, your "will" would fail.  An interesting article about the marshmallow experiments highlights the non-existence of will power.  What was the marshmallow experiment?  In, "Don't!," a fantastic article in the latest New Yorker, the author describes it thusly:A researcher then made Carolyn an offer: she could either eat one marshmallow right away or, if she was willing to wait while he stepped out for a few minutes, she could have two marshmallows when he returned...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 17, 2009 (boomark / email).