“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have much more power over your own fate than you believe 💡
When you understand that, you can bend reality to your will and create favorable outcomes, in all areas of your life.
Today, we sit down with Harvard psychologist, Dr. Ellen Langer, known as the mother of mindfulness. Through her 13 bestselling books and 200+ research articles, Dr. Langer’s research has significantly advanced the literature on positive psychology, health, and human performance — and appeared in everything from The New York Times to The Simpsons.
Her new book The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health has just been released.
If you’d like to know how to harness the power of your own mind to dramatically increase your health, happiness, and performance, this one’s for you…
In this episode:
Let’s WIN THE DAY with Dr. Ellen Langer!
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Timemarkers:
0:17 Who is Ellen Langer
1:51 Interview starts
3:10 What does it mean to be “mindful” vs “mindless”?
4:23 How to become more mindful
7:45 Everything you know can be wrong
9:19 Facts are just probabilities
11:24 How Ellen Langer comes up with a research study
12:01 What is the counterclockwise study
15:40 Mind-body unity
17:52 How Ellen Langer sets goals
20:29 The Mindful Body by Dr. Ellen Langer
22:09 Our expectations tend to be fulfilled (do instead of try)
25:19 Behavior makes sense from the actor’s perspective
27:11 How to turn a bad habit into a good habit
30:46 Where mindfulness meets high performance
32:17 How to change someone’s behavior
37:20 Why the medical system is failing us
40:21 Stress is psychological
43:44 Why we trust pills, prescriptions, and professionals
49:38 Instant gratification
52:39 The unknown power of the human mind
56:54 How to make decisions (make the decision right)
1:01:43 Affirmation
1:03:25 Rocket Round
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