{"id":26,"date":"2006-02-01T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.neolefty.org\/wordpress\/?p=26"},"modified":"2006-02-01T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T14:42:00","slug":"you-can-measure-self-discipline-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/01\/you-can-measure-self-discipline-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"You can measure self-discipline?  Cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is asking: <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitivedaily.com\/?p=137\"><i>Which is more important, IQ or self-discipline?<\/i><\/a>.  What&#8217;s self-discipline?  According to the article, it includes the ability to delay gratification:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Walter Mischel and colleagues found in the 1980s that 4-year-olds&#8217; ability to delay gratification (for example, to wait a few minutes for two cookies instead of taking one cookie right away) was predictive of academic achievement a decade later.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It makes sense, but self-discipline is very under-studied, compared to IQ (the article points out a more than 10-to-1 ratio of studies of IQ to studies of discipline).<\/p>\n<p>Is this related somehow to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetbahai.org\/cgi-bin\/articles.pl?article=105\">Accustoming children to hardship?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That study sounds like a great idea.  And it makes me think of so many other subjects to study.  What other qualities are measurable?  Compassion?  Fair-mindedness?  And what outcomes can be measured, beyond academic performance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is asking: Which is more important, IQ or self-discipline?. What&#8217;s self-discipline? According to the article, it includes the ability to delay gratification: Walter Mischel and colleagues found in the 1980s that 4-year-olds&#8217; ability to delay gratification (for example, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/01\/you-can-measure-self-discipline-cool\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}