Dr. Ellen Langer

If you were going to come visit me right now, you'd come to my house and you'd pay attention.

You'd see, you'd look at the paintings.

You'd say, did she do that?

What books am I reading?

What is that?

You'd be asking yourself questions and enjoying yourself.

without any effort.

That's the important thing.

So when we realize we don't know, life becomes interesting again and effortless.

Yes, this is funny.

So I go to Australia and I give a talk and a number of other people give individual talks.

And then the surprise, we're all brought out on stage, all these big shots.

And somebody asked the first person about their bucket list.

And the next person, what's their bucket list?

And I'm like, what's on my bucket list?

I don't have a bucket list.

And then in my typical style, I say, well, if I don't have a bucket list, it's probably fine not to have a bucket list.

And why is it fine not to have?

So then she gets to me and I say, I don't have a bucket list.

That if what you're doing is fun, enjoyable, and you're doing it fully, you don't need to be doing anything else.