A bare table. One treat. A four-year-old who wants it now.
The kids who held out didn't grind their teeth and tough it out. They turned around. Sang to the wall. Put their hands over their eyes. They didn't fight the want, they removed the thing feeding it.
Most men try to out-muscle temptation with eye contact. You don't beat a craving by staring it down. You beat it by changing what's in the room. The phone in the drawer, not on the desk. The leftovers out of the fridge, not behind the milk. Willpower is a limited account. Removing the cue is free.
This is the whole mechanism behind the marshmallow test, and it applies to a man's whiskey cabinet as much as a kid's candy dish.
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