Don T Eat The Marshmallow Summary

“Don’t Eat the Marshmallow!” by Joachim de Posada

This video tells about psychological perspective and a behavioral principles concerning selling, producing, and consuming of goods. The experiment was held with children of pre-school age. The experiment was the following: 3 kids were told not to eat a marshmallow left for them: there were only three marshmallows one for each of the kids; the man said to kids that in case their marshmallow will be there after 15 minutes they will have something else for their pleasure (another marshmallow). Two out of three kids ate theirs immediately after the experiment’s researcher left the room. The third kid tried not to eat almost up until the end of the estimate time. This self-disciplined kid did not

School literature teacher tells about the ignorance that can so often be met on the streets everywhere but most of all inside the hearts of those who are too proud, weak or inattentive to notice the problems around themselves like they live in a bubble. All people are human and humanity is united and connected. Problems like those that are mentioned by Clint come from foolishness, arrogance and carelessness. Altogether they are the silence which is a root of all evil. Smith starts his brief speech with Martin Luther’s quotation that the silence of our friends is more dangerous than the words of our enemies. He then follows it with a description of his own experience of overcoming the ignorance of people which they establish by ignoring the minorities’ problems and poverty of the lower classes. He makes his pupils follow 4 simple rules: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly and tell the truth. Clint’s own truth evolves and develops from his ignoring the beating of a gay person in front of him to serving food in the public kitchen. But this are only crumbs and the main message is that he tells how dangerous is the silence of those who can make everything fair, right and balance the scales of society. And this capability is in hands of anyone. He accurately connects silence with horrible Rwanda Genocide which happened only 20 years ago at the end of the 20th century in a world which we consider civilized. We can’t be civilized if the problems of the world community don’t mean anything to us. It is like in Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” – everybody and everything is connected. The hand that doesn’t give will not receive. Clint ends his message with a grand appeal to everyone to use their voice. Each and every human person has a power to make things right. It is neither fair nor moral to keep silence when evil speaks and be still when human duty calls for