Growth Minds with Sean Kim How Your Mindset Is Making You Sick & Age Faster | Dr. Ellen Langer
Nov 27, 2025
Dr. Ellen Langer, Harvard's 'mother of mindfulness,' dives into how our mindset significantly influences our health and aging. She challenges the concept of mindlessness and illustrates how simply noticing changes can enhance mindfulness. Langer discusses the surprising benefits of viewing work as exercise and how perceived time can affect healing. She emphasizes the unity of mind and body and presents fascinating studies, including one where older participants acting younger reversed aging markers. A thought-provoking conversation that reshapes our understanding of well-being!
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Notice To Escape Autopilot
- Mindlessness means living on autopilot: the past dictates present actions and subtle changes go unnoticed.
- Mindfulness is simply noticing uncertainty and novelty, which restores choice and engagement.
Three-New-Things Habit
- Practice noticing three new things about people, places, or tasks each day to break routines.
- Use these small observations to refresh your perspective and treat familiar things as new.
Mind And Body Are One
- Mind and body are a single unit; beliefs change physiology, not just perception.
- Placebo and counterclockwise studies show mindset alters vision, strength, memory, and health markers.