Which is wiser: to eat one apple turnover now, or to wait fifteen minutes and then have two apple turnovers? Toby, eight years old and a supporting character in Nathan Hill’s novel “Wellness”, doesn’t think twice and immediately stuffs the apple turnover into his mouth. This worries his mother Elizabeth. Lack of impulse control. In addition, this psychological experiment known as the “Marshmallow Test” once concluded that children who could not control themselves were later less successful at school and at work. Her son, Elizabeth thinks, shouldn’t end up like this. From now on she believes he is at risk and at least problematic.
Nathan Hill’s new novel “Wellness” – Culture
