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For 50 years, the marshmallow test has been used to argue that self-discipline is something you're either born with or you're not. Turns out the lead researcher never actually believed that. In this chapter, Mark and Drew unpack what the marshmallow test was really measuring, why what most people call "their personality" is actually a stack of forgotten coping strategies from childhood, and how the middle layer of identity (your adaptations) quietly runs almost everything you do without you ever noticing.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:50 The marshmallow test, debunked
06:06 How traits become habits
12:19 The layers of adaptation
20:44 Identity as your deepest adaptation
28:16 Why adaptations resist change
39:55 Off the rails with Drew
50:20 Why change happens in relationships
54:03 The 5 stages of change
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