Don't Eat The Marshmallow Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life [Hardcover]

Joachim de Posada (Author), Ellen Singer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 6, 2005

Arthur is a chauffeur who is intellectually gifted. Jonathan is no less bright than Arthur, equally hard-working, and a billionaire. So why is Jonathan in the back seat of the limousine and Arthur in the front? What explains the difference between success and failure? And what does it mean to you and your children?

Joachim de Posada, a world-renowned motivational speaker, found the answer in a landmark Stanford University study of children who were able to delay gratification-in the form of a marshmallow they'd been given to eat-with the promise that they'd be rewarded with an additional marshmallow if they resisted eating the first for fifteen minutes. Ten years later, the children who held out had grown up to be significantly more successful than those who had eaten their marshmallow immediately.

Posada saw that the key difference between success and failure is not merely hard work or superior intelligence, but the ability to delay gratification. "Marshmallow resisters" achieve high levels of success while others eat all their marshmallows at once, so to speak-accumulating debt and dissatisfaction despite their occupations or incomes. But it doesn't have to be that way. Using a simple parable and real-life examples (including basketball great Larry Bird and major league baseball catcher Jorge Posada, Joachim's cousin), this life-changing book shows readers how the moves made today can pay off big tomorrow-if they just don't eat the marshmallow...yet!

Editorial Reviews

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Posada is like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, and Norman Vincent Peale all rolled into one --Ray Pelletier.

Don t Eat the Marshmallow...Yet! is more than just fluff. It s a recipe for long-term-success --Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Swim With the Sharks without being Eaten Alive.

Successful people know that to get what you really want, you often have to pass on what is offered during the first round . Joachim de Posada s engaging style teaches all of us how to say I pass so that we can say I won --Pegine Echevarria, consultant, author, success coach, and creator of Team Pegine

Don t Eat the Marshmallow...Yet! is more than just fluff. It s a recipe for long-term-success --Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Swim With the Sharks without being Eaten Alive.

Successful people know that to get what you really want, you often have to pass on what is offered during the first round . Joachim de Posada s engaging style teaches all of us how to say I pass so that we can say I won --Pegine Echevarria, consultant, author, success coach, and creator of Team Pegine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

About the Author

Joachim de Posada, Ph.D., is a bilingual public speaker, radio personality, author, and columnist who has provided motivational coaching for the Milwaukee Bucks, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Panamanian Olympic team. His clients include Verizon, Pfizer, Kodak, Xerox, 3M, and Continental Airlines, among many others. He is the author of How to Survive Among the Piranhas.

Ellen Singer is the award-winning author of the acclaimed memoir Quicksand: One Woman's Escape from the Husband Who Stalked Her.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover (September 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425205452
• ISBN-13: 978-0425205457
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,038 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Named in 2009 one of 25 Hot Speakers in the United States who are shaping the speaking profession by Professionally Speaking, the National Speakers Association magazine.
Awarded Most Distinguished Hispanic Speaker in the United States in 2007 at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Convention in San Juan, P.R.
Speaker at TED U. in February 2009 and his session posted at www.ted.com surpassed one million hits.
"Posada is like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Norman Vincent Peale
all rolled in one ... and he does it in two languages!"--Ray Pelletier

BIO

Dr. Joachim de Posada is a highly qualified international motivational speaker and author based in San Juan, Puerto Rico who is fluent in English and Spanish. He specializes in sales, management, leadership and team building and has worked in more than fifty countries and the United States.

Dr. Joachim de Posada holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Puerto Rico, a Master's degree and a Doctorate in Psychology. Serving as Director, Learning Systems Division of Xerox Corporation based in Stamford, Joachim had the best research in the industry available to him and participated in the development of some of the most successful sales training programs available today. He then became a consultant for Learning International and Achieve Global after the division was sold to Times Mirror Corporation. He helped Franklin Covey Corporation expand to Latin America, working both in their international and domestic divisions.
He is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami since 1988 teaching Leadership, Psychology Applied to Sales, Negotiating Skills and Time Management. Due to his book tour schedule, he didn´t teach this year but still remains in the active list.
Joachim has traveled with his message, energy and passion on stage to address audiences in more than 60 countries. Some of his clients include Exxon Mobile, Merck, Verizon, Baxter, BBVA, the US National Guard, Sprint, Amadeus, American Airlines, and others listed at the end of this document.

His motivational methods have been so successful that they have been transferred to the sports world. In the past he has been a consultant in Sports Psychology for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, the Los Angeles Lakers,The New Jersey Nets, Puerto Rican Professional teams and Olympic teams, motivating the players to achieve higher levels of performance.
This combination of Academia, Corporate, and Sports has given Joachim a unique perspective in putting proven principles to work to motivate and inspire people to new levels of excellence. This blend of experiences is guaranteed to have four synergistic effects on your business:
1. Increase sales
2. Raise Productivity
3. Empower Managers to Coach
4. Inspire a winning team

He is the main author of the book "Don't Eat the Marshmallow...Yet: The secret to sweet success in work and in life" named the best book of the month by the New York Times and published by Penguin. This book has been translated into eighteen languages and it is now an international best seller having sold more than 2 million copies since its publication on Sept, 2005. Don´t Gobble the Marshmallow... Ever: The Secret to Sweet Success in times of Change, the sequel to his previous book was published on November 6th, 2007 and has already sold more than 500,000 copies. His other very successful book is "How to Survive among Piranhas: Motivation to Succeed", a best seller in Latin America and in Korea. This book was published by Planeta, the largest Spanish publisher in the world and the seventh largest in the world.
Presently, he writes a weekly column in the Business Monday Section of the Puerto Rico Daily Sun and has a daily motivational capsule three times a day in WOSO, the only commercial English Radio Station in San Juan, Puerto Rico..
He served as director on the board of the National Speakers Association for the year 2008-2009.
He spoke at the TED Conference in 2009 and is slated to speak again in TED U 2010
He is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors,The American Psychotherapy Association, the International Management Consultants Association, The Committe for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, Rotary and he is a Bright.


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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 90 Pages Changed My Life, October 5, 2005

By 

Orlando Rodriguez, Esq. "Orlando Rodriguez, Esq." (florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Eat The Marshmallow Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life (Hardcover)

I'd like to preface my review of this book by stating unequivocally that I am not, nor will I ever be a person who seeks intellectual or spiritual solace in the pages of a book. In fact, I've always scoffed cynically at the poor lost sheep who spend hundreds of dollars in the hopes that one of those "Tony Robbins types" will lead them to the promised land. It was with this skepticism that I began to read the pages of a book that will affect every aspect of my life for as long as I live.

My girlfriend recommended "Marshmallow" to me some time ago. Because she is a woman whom I love and admire, I felt compelled to read this book that she credits so much for her strength and success. Eventually, as most men in love do, I did as I was told; I read the book.

Then I read it again. And then again. Dr. De Posada somehow wrote my biography without ever having have met me. He knew exactly which poor decisions I was making in my life, and eerily, he knew the thought process behind those decisions. In a simple, concise, easy to read jewel, Dr. De Posada can teach anyone how to save money, rear children, or even lose weight just by applying one principle to all of their decisions, "don't eat the marshmallow...yet!" If you can delay the immediate gratification, the "quick fix," you will be a happier and more successful person in life. Why eat 10 Bic Macs a month when you can have one filet mignon for the same amount of money and a lot less fat? Why buy the Rolex today when, if properly invested, you could use the money to retire tomorrow and own 10 Rolexes if you wished.

As a young attorney I found my self spending my new-found riches on things that simply will not last. All I had left of the money I would spend were faint memories and hang-overs. I was so anxious to immediately enjoy the fruits of my labor, that I failed to realize those fruits had not yet rippened.

Since reading this book I have made giant strides in becoming a "marshmallow resister." The results can be measured by the resurgence of my once waning my bank account. This doesn't mean that I have become a frugal, anti-social leper. Quite the opposite, the quality of my life has improved. Rather than drinking at the local bar 3 days a week, I go once a week and find that I enjoy it even more. This is what the book makes you realize, that more often than not, less is more. And that if you apply patience and discipline to your life instead of pleasing yourself every chance you get, you will be paid off in the long-run.

Buy this book.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what we expected, December 21, 2009

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Colin Macdonald "Ciccio" (Milano, Italia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Don't Eat The Marshmallow Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life (Hardcover)

I bought this book for my wife, having heard about the fascinating 'marshmallow' experiment. Unfortunately, this book's relationship with that experiment ends with the title. This book is nothing more than anecdotal sugary fluff, which I suppose is appropriate, given the alleged subject. The writer fails to give any true scientific data on these experiments and instead relates many irrelevant stories, carried along with weak, generic characters (one of which, the uber-successful millionaire, seems to be egotistically based on the writer). The writer's attempt to put something more concrete at the end of the book, amounts to some highly questionable math that only seems relevant to the truly financially inept.

The only reason my wife and I were able to finish this book was due to it's minuscule length. If you enjoy hollow self-help books, then buy this book. I'm sure this book will make some people feel good about their goals, but don't be fooled with the title, it has no relation to the amazing 'marshmallow' experiment. If you want anything with substances, look into the actual research and avoid this book.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational, December 31, 2005

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Andrea Abuchaibe (Miami, Fl) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Eat The Marshmallow Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life (Hardcover)

It's easy to set goals in life but the difficult part is to reach those goals. This book will help you through that journey.
I recommend this book to everyone. It has been a great inspiration and it has helped me discover what was wrong with my life. Now I have a clearer view of what it is that I want and how I'm going to reach my goals. I have a million challenges that I have to overcome now, but the idea of delay in gratification makes me excited!
Once again I recommend it to everyone. Read it!