A MUST WATCH VIDEO FOR YOUNG PEOPLE | The Deciding Success Factor

There are many determinators that can show the potential success of a person, even from a young age. Michio Kaku analyses these determinators and contextualises them so that you can use them to better your personal growth and achieve your dreams.

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You have a lot of high IQ people who become
marginal members of society,
and so what is the one psychological test that correlates with success in life?

Well, when you look at children
and you look at all the different theories about what makes successful kids,
you realize that almost all the theories are wrong
because they haven't been verified, like, for example, high IQ.
You have a lot of high IQ people who become
marginal members of society,
and so what is the one psychological test that correlates with success in life?
And I found out that it's the marshmallow test.
It’s the test that has survived every challenge,
you track students for 30 years,
for 30 years in different countries,
and you find that they are more successful,
they have a lower divorce rate, higher income, higher status in society.
So what is this marshmallow test?
You get kids and ask them, do you want a marshmallow now,
or two marshmallows a few hours from now?
And the kids that want the marshmallow now
tend to be those that want shortcuts,
those that don't want to do the hard work, they want the quick kill,
they grab that marshmallow,
but the other ones say, “no, wait a minute, if I wait two hours,
I can get two marshmallows, I can hold out,
there's a pot of gold waiting for me”,
they're not going to take the shortcut.
And so you say to yourself, “well, that's a test for kids”.
But then you track them decade by decade by decade,
and then you find out, “oh, my God, these are the ones who go to college,
the ones who hold out for that advanced degree,
that don't want that simple a payoff now
but are going to delay gratification into the future”.
And so I realize that that's the key to success in life, not just science,
but in life, don't take the shortcuts.
I realize every time I was struggling with all these equations,
there was that pot of gold out there, I wanted to understand Einstein,
I wanted to understand the quantum theory,
I wanted to be the cutting edge of science, even if it meant that I had to
not go play outside, I had to sit in my chair and simply crank out the math,
you've got to pay your dues.
And when I think about Einstein,
he spent the last 30 years of his life chasing after the theory of everything.
He spent ten years of his life chasing after
what is what we now call relativity.
When Einstein was 16 years old, 16 years old,
he asked himself a simple question, can you outrace a light beam?
It took him ten years to solve that problem.
When he was 26 years old, he figured it all out,
and that was relativity and that changed the entire world.
So talking about a marshmallow,
here's a man who said he's going to spend ten years of his life
answering a question, can you outrace a light beam?
And the answer is no.
The speed of light is the ultimate velocity in the universe,
Einstein is the cop on the block.
So here's a man who really held out for that marshmallow.
We physicists are now probing the thought processes of the human brain,
we want to know about what is mental illness,
we want to know what is schizophrenia, why does the brain go crazy
and what is the creative process and what is intelligence?
And what we found out is that when we compare ourselves to animals,
we realize that our human brain really is different from the animals.
First of all, we have alligators, alligators understand space,
very good understanding of space, they find prey, they find mates,
they know where they are in terms of space.
Then you have monkeys and then you have mice and then you have dogs,
they're social animals, they have not just spatial hierarchy,
they have social hierarchy, they know who's the top dog,
they know how to defer to other members of the tribe,
that’s social consciousness.
Then what do we have?
If animals like alligators have spatial consciousness,
if dogs have social consciousness, what kind of consciousness do we have?

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