Dr. Ellen Langer, Harvard's first tenured female psychology professor and acclaimed "mother of mindfulness," shares insights from her latest work. She discusses how intentional awareness and humility can transform health and mindset. The conversation delves into the effects of time perception on aging and disease, and how reframing suffering through faith can empower us. Langer emphasizes the importance of directing attention intentionally to foster personal growth and tackle bureaucratic challenges in research. An inspiring exploration of mindfulness awaits!
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness is actively noticing new things or embracing uncertainty.
Everything is always changing, so we should never assume we know everything.
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Horse Eating Hot Dog
Ellen Langer recounts seeing a horse eat a hot dog, challenging her assumptions.
This experience highlighted that everything she thought she knew could be wrong.
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Future Authoring Program
Jordan Peterson's Future Authoring program helps students develop a life vision.
This 90-minute exercise improves grades and reduces dropout rates.
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In 'The Power of Mindful Learning', Ellen J. Langer critiques seven common myths in education, such as the need for rote memorization and the importance of delayed gratification. She advocates for a mindful approach to learning, emphasizing openness to novelty, awareness of multiple perspectives, and sensitivity to context. This approach is shown to improve learning outcomes and increase student engagement.
The Mindful Body
Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health
Ellen J. Langer
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and “The mother of mindfulness,” Dr. Ellen Langer discuss her latest book, The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way To Chronic Health. From this they explore how intentioned awareness paired with humility allows for a healthier mindset and body, how the perception of time impacts the effects of disease and age, the way to view tragedy and suffering so that we may conquer it through faith and hope, and the immense benefits found in carefully considering to what, where, and who you direct your attention.
Ellen J. Langer was the first woman to be tenured in psychology at Harvard, where she is still professor of psychology. The recipient of three Distinguished Scientists awards, the Arthur W. Staats Award for Unifying Psychology, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Liberty Science Genius Award, Dr. Langer is the author of eleven other books, including the international bestseller Mindfulness, as well as The Power of Mindful Learning, Counterclockwise and On Becoming an Artist. Her trailblazing experiments in social psychology have earned her inclusion in The New York Times Magazine’s “Year in Ideas” issue. She is known worldwide as the “mother of mindfulness” and the “mother of positive psychology”. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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