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Dr. Ellen Langer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3105 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

People need to understand the study was back before Google, before we had the internet. So when I am... playing music in the van going to the event, music from the past. This was a major thing to find this. Now it takes two minutes. You ask Chad lately, give me the 10 best songs back 20 years ago. At any rate, so I'm on the bus with them, music from the past playing.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

People need to understand the study was back before Google, before we had the internet. So when I am... playing music in the van going to the event, music from the past. This was a major thing to find this. Now it takes two minutes. You ask Chad lately, give me the 10 best songs back 20 years ago. At any rate, so I'm on the bus with them, music from the past playing.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

We get very close to the retreat, and all of a sudden I realize that I was sexist at the time, oblivious, that none of my male graduate students were with me. That meant I had seven old men and at least seven heavy suitcases. there was no way that I was going to carry their suitcases upstairs. So, unplanned for, we get off the bus, and I say, you're in charge of your own suitcase.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

We get very close to the retreat, and all of a sudden I realize that I was sexist at the time, oblivious, that none of my male graduate students were with me. That meant I had seven old men and at least seven heavy suitcases. there was no way that I was going to carry their suitcases upstairs. So, unplanned for, we get off the bus, and I say, you're in charge of your own suitcase.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

We get very close to the retreat, and all of a sudden I realize that I was sexist at the time, oblivious, that none of my male graduate students were with me. That meant I had seven old men and at least seven heavy suitcases. there was no way that I was going to carry their suitcases upstairs. So, unplanned for, we get off the bus, and I say, you're in charge of your own suitcase.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

I don't care if you move it an inch at a time to get it to your room, or you unpack it here a shirt at a time, however you want to do it. Now, imagine, nothing else, the difference between somebody who's coddled, who's not even thought to be able to respond to a question, where the daughter or son would answer for them, to now, they're in charge of their whole lives.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

I don't care if you move it an inch at a time to get it to your room, or you unpack it here a shirt at a time, however you want to do it. Now, imagine, nothing else, the difference between somebody who's coddled, who's not even thought to be able to respond to a question, where the daughter or son would answer for them, to now, they're in charge of their whole lives.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

I don't care if you move it an inch at a time to get it to your room, or you unpack it here a shirt at a time, however you want to do it. Now, imagine, nothing else, the difference between somebody who's coddled, who's not even thought to be able to respond to a question, where the daughter or son would answer for them, to now, they're in charge of their whole lives.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

And that meant that even the comparison group was going to do well, which they did, just not quite as well as the other group. And for me, that was fine because, as you mentioned before, my work is all about possibility. I'm not interested in describing what is. I'm interested in seeing what may be. So if I got one monkey to say, hey, Ellen, that's nonsense,

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

And that meant that even the comparison group was going to do well, which they did, just not quite as well as the other group. And for me, that was fine because, as you mentioned before, my work is all about possibility. I'm not interested in describing what is. I'm interested in seeing what may be. So if I got one monkey to say, hey, Ellen, that's nonsense,

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

And that meant that even the comparison group was going to do well, which they did, just not quite as well as the other group. And for me, that was fine because, as you mentioned before, my work is all about possibility. I'm not interested in describing what is. I'm interested in seeing what may be. So if I got one monkey to say, hey, Ellen, that's nonsense,

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

That would be fine if we couldn't train the rest of them. But it would lead us to different views of language.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

That would be fine if we couldn't train the rest of them. But it would lead us to different views of language.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

That would be fine if we couldn't train the rest of them. But it would lead us to different views of language.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

Yeah. I would use the methods of the field. It was just the questions that were different. So they weren't seen to be quite as different as you're suggesting. Did any of your colleagues think like โ€“ No.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

Yeah. I would use the methods of the field. It was just the questions that were different. So they weren't seen to be quite as different as you're suggesting. Did any of your colleagues think like โ€“ No.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

Yeah. I would use the methods of the field. It was just the questions that were different. So they weren't seen to be quite as different as you're suggesting. Did any of your colleagues think like โ€“ No.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

No.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

No.

Huberman Lab
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer

No.