Arthur, equally hard-working, and a billionaire. So why is Jonathan in the back seat of the limousine and Arthur in the front? What explains the difference between success and failure? And what does it mean to you and your children?

Joachim de Posada, a world-renowned motivational speaker, found the answer in a landmark Stanford University study of children who were able to delay gratification-in the form of a marshmallow they'd been given to eat-with the promise that they'd be rewarded with an additional marshmallow if they resisted eating the first for fifteen minutes. Ten years later, the children who held out had grown up to be significantly more successful than those who had eaten their marshmallow immediately.

Posada saw that the key difference between success and failure is not merely hard work or superior intelligence, but the ability to delay gratification. "Marshmallow resisters" achieve high levels of success while others eat all their marshmallows at once, so to speak-accumulating debt and dissatisfaction despite their occupations or incomes. But it doesn't have to be that way. Using a simple parable and real-life examples (including basketball great Larry Bird and major league baseball catcher Jorge Posada, Joachim's cousin), this life-changing book shows readers how the moves made today can pay off big tomorrow-if they just don't eat the marshmallow...yet!

 

 

왜 나의 하루는 항상 똑같을까? 왜 나는 내일의 행복보다는 오늘의 달콤한 유혹 앞에 머뭇거리고 있을까? 이런 고민에 빠진 사람들을 위해 당대 최고의 동기부여가인 저자가 꿈과 용기의 시간으로 독자들을 초대한다. 이 책은 성공의 마시멜로를 찾아 떠난 찰리와 조나단의 감동 스토리를 통해 오늘 무엇을 할 것인지에 따라 내일의 행복이 결정된다는 점을 일깨워준다. 적당한 ‘만족’과 ‘타협’이 가져다주는 은밀한 유혹에 빠져 하루하루를 살아가고 있는 사람들에게 평범한 ‘오늘’을 특별한 ‘내일’로 만드는 소중한 지혜를 전해 줄 것이다.