1. Self Control & The Elephant:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1593, Italy)
Self Control & The Elephant:
Grow that
self-control!
Instructions for Presenter: (3 min welcome; 1 min. slide.)
Starts off passing out cookie for Marshmallow simulation.
1) This is the title of our session today. Who sees an elephant in the brain of this painting?
2) This painting was done in the 1500s in the Italian Court by a painter called Guiseppe Arcimboldo, who painted portraits of noblemen. When he noticed that the nobles’ features resembled animals or vegetasbles, he placed those images in his view of their heads. This elephant in a noble’s head is painted 400 years before scientists discovered that a brain region acts just like a 5-ton elephant.
3) What is this region called? Who remembers the name? (Amygdala which means Almond in Latin.) That’s because it is the size and shape of an almond.

2. Emotional Competence:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1593, Italy)
The ability to identify and manage emotions to support your progress in the world.

3. Review Cartoons From Yesterday
Pause for a moment and remember your cartoon from yesterday. Let’s throw out some common themes. What were they?
Okay, self-control is hard. Let’s watch someone talk about it.

4. The Marshmallow Experiment
Dr. Walter Mischcel, Stanford University 1960’s
Tested 4-year olds: Who delayed personal gratification?
1/3 ate the marshmallow in seconds
1/3 held off for 15 minutes
Let’s now watch this famous marshmallow experiment. Read text.
As you watch, see if you can discover any techniques that some 4-year olds used to not eat the marshmallow.

5. The Marshmallow Experiment
High Delayers at age 18:
SATs 200 points higher; better grades.
Higher ability to plan & think.
Let’s now watch this famous marshmallow experiment. Read text.
As you watch, see if you can discover any techniques that some 4-year olds used to not eat the marshmallow.
However some Low Delayers Successful…

6. “Think about your thinking.”
Learn the Skill:
“Think about your thinking.”
Example: When children were taught to pretend Marshmallow surrounded by a picture frame,
willpower went from 60 seconds to 15 minutes!
(They thought about their thinking.)

7. Relationship between self-control and grades
Study of teens:
Relationship between self-control and grades
8th graders asked to choose between 1 dollar now or 2 dollars in a week.
Delayers did better in school.
Better predictor of academic performance than I.Q.

8. Relationship between self-control and grades
Study of teens:
Relationship between self-control and grades
Self-control is more important than intelligence for getting good grades.

9. Willpower is Weak! Good for 30 seconds Help your Rider withTricks:
1: ?
2: ?
3: ?
Sharing tips

10. Willpower is Weak! Good for 30 seconds
Help Rider with mental tips for resisting temptation:
Distract Yourself!
Identify tempting situations ahead & develop Trigger Strategies: Plan for what, where, how you will move towards your goal.

11. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1593, Italy)
Freeze Drama
of the cartoons
Now I’ll pass out cartoons randomly. Each group pick one to perform. Read the cartoon and think about the tips.
Then start the cartoon drama. When I say Freeze, someone comes up and changes the drama, using one of the tips.

12. Cookie Time & Statement of Intention
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1593, Italy)
Cookie Time & Statement of Intention