Dr. Ellen Langer

You can't predict.

You can predict, you can predict for a group that if you were to start 100 Mercedes and you turn the key, most of them will start, not necessarily all of them.

And that would be more than if you were in some used car lot.

But you can predict the individual case and we're all individuals.

And when it comes to our health,

We really care more about how the medicine is going to go down for us personally.

Now, I believe that stress

is the major source of our illness really over and above uh diet uh genetics even treatment it's a very big statement and that stress though is psychological right events don't cause stress what causes stress are the views you take of the event so if you open it up but you're more mindful

And if you said to yourself, rather than this thing is going to be awful, give yourself five reasons why it might actually be an advantage.

So now it could be awful, could be advantageous.

You're immediately somewhat relaxed.

But I say go to the next step.

Let's assume it does happen.

What are the advantages?

The worst case scenario.

And what are the advantages?

And so then when you say you'll be able to deal with whatever happens, then you're less worried about them and you don't have to spend so much time trying to control the outcome.

But for the big things that are happening in this world right now, I think that it's a super test of all that I'm saying.

Yeah, I surely, at this age, have had real things happen.

I had a fire that destroyed 80% of what I owned way back when.