4B What do you think?

Inquiry Questions

How do you increase your amount of will power, and can you do this?

It is possible for someone to increase his or her will power. In order to increase will power you need to be self-motivated and have self-control. In college many students find it hard to manage their time and get all their homework done with allowing them enough time to do so. One way to fix this is to create a daily/weekly schedule that tells you when to get your work done. It’s easy to create a schedule but the trick is to stick with it so you don’t get behind, it’s also a way to train your brain. Another example would be going to the gym. Personally I always say I’m going to the gym after class but I never have the motive to do so. A way to fix this would be to set a time to go and stay with it weekly. In order to increase my will power I need to be self motivated and practice getting used to the same routine.

I’ve read a lot on this marshmallow experiment and I want to know if it really affects their SAT scores in the future.

So if you don’t know about the experiment, this guy took a group of four years olds and put a marshmallow in front of them and told them if they didn’t eat it for 50 minutes they would get a second marshmallow. Supposedly those who ate the marshmallow without waiting scored lower on the SAT’s than those who didn’t eat it. I don’t think this is true, to me it just seems silly that something that they did 14 years ago could effect how they score on a test. I do find this experiment interesting but I’m not so sure I believe the part about SAT’s scores. One article I read was “Just let them eat the marshmallow” I agreed with this article because it also stated that they didn’t find any correlation between the kids and there test scores.