To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed thatchildhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.
He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him[…] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in hischildhood.
(by extension) The early stages ofdevelopment of something.
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