Pushing fun factor: Cries to not specialize amplifying in youth sports

The Marshmallow Test, pioneered by Stanford University psychologist Walter Mischel, was designed to understand the benefits of delaying gratification.
A marshmallow is placed in front of a child, with the promise of another if he or she can resist eating it for 15 minutes. The results were said to predict a child’s future life outcome, a controversial hypothesis that’s been hotly debated in the 50 years since the test’s inception.
If youth sports is the adult version of the tes