Aisha Buhari meets with Melinda, Bill Gates’ wife, over the improvement of the lives of women and the girl child in Nigeria.
There is something called the Marshmallow Test. What is it? Years ago, researchers sat little children down, one at a time, with a single marshmallow in front of them. They gave each child a simple choice: eat this marshmallow now… or wait 15 minutes and get TWO marshmallows instead. Some children couldn’t resist as they grabbed it immediately. Others fidgeted, struggled, covered their eyes, sat on their hands… but they waited. Years later, when researchers followed up on these same ...