Analysis Of Fida Out Of Control By Jonah Lehrer

Frida Out Of Control In "Don't! The Secret Of Self-Control", journalist Jonah Lehrer, recounts an experiment performed in the late nineteen-sixties by physiologist Walter Mischel. The experiment, which became known as the "The Marshmallow Test", took place at Stanford University’s Bing Nursery School, where Mischel and some of his graduate students presented children with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this marshmallow now, or wait fifteen minutes and get two. Many years later, Mischel and his team followed up with the children they had tested. They analyzed their results and found out that those who had waited for the second marshmallow fared better in life,
What happens to those impulsive, impatient, and in-the-moment kind of people, who simply don't have control over their actions or behaviors? Are they bound to be unsuccessful? We have heard the successful and unsuccessful stories of various renowned individuals, and how self-control or the lack thereof has played a role in their success. Although, Lehrer suggest that only high-delayers will be successful, the famous Mexican painter Frida Khalo shows that she was an exception to the rule, it was because she lacked self- control that she became the successful painter that we now know of and
She simply couldn't take things slow, always thinking that her life could come to an abrupt end at any given moment. She had a fascination with both: Life and death. She had desire to live and die. She was impatient, passionate, and impulsive. Even in her art she showcased this characteristics. She once said "I paint always whatever passes through my head, without any other considerations" (Kahlo Pg.14), this only comes to shows how little self-control she had and how impulsive she was even with her art. She was so out of control that she didn't even know who she was. Who was Frida Kahlo? I don't even think she had the answer to this question herself. The fortunate people who had the pleasure to meet her, venerated her work and accomplishments, and adulated her for it. but she seemed to be oblivious of these critical acclaims. In a heart-rending letter she wrote to her then estranged husband, Diego Rivera, she