In children and adults, willpower can be taught the ability to delay gratification. If you think about the experiment, you almost think of it as a waiting game or a system of thinking, involving knowing sensations, feelings and actions. When willpower fails and leads to bad actions. Some people believe that their actions can influence their behavior for life. Later, in time, he returned with the preschoolers who were now high schoolers. about traits and asked whether they could control their temper or not, did they accept challenges and get along with peers, also asked for a copy of sat scores. The correlation was clear to the researchers. Children who rang the bell within one minute were much more likely to have behavioral problems, both at school and at home. They struggled in stressful situations and had difficulty paying attention. The difference between a child who could wait thirty seconds and a child who could wait fifteen minutes was that he had a higher delay and had a SAT score that was, on average, two hundred and ten points higher than that of children who could not wait. Mischel's work has helped children with non-cognitive personality traits, such as self-control and conscientiousness, that are important in our daily lives. In many studies, self-control explains more of the individual variation in achievement than IQ scores. It also has help with willpower. Some may say that willpower overcomes temptation, but in reality it is delya's ability.