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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

And always with the intention of getting people to be less absolute in their understanding of any of this so that they can imagine all sorts of possibilities. But even the thing that I just said a moment before, that it's important for people to realize the advantage in using their left hand if they're right-handed or their right hand if they're left-handed.

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

And always with the intention of getting people to be less absolute in their understanding of any of this so that they can imagine all sorts of possibilities. But even the thing that I just said a moment before, that it's important for people to realize the advantage in using their left hand if they're right-handed or their right hand if they're left-handed.

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

And then at the same time recognizing that when they break a leg, when somebody breaks a leg, that forces you to do everything differently. And if you attend to that, that can be a wonderful thing. You know, I don't know how I got to see these things. It's very strange to me when I think of what things have influenced me.

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

And then at the same time recognizing that when they break a leg, when somebody breaks a leg, that forces you to do everything differently. And if you attend to that, that can be a wonderful thing. You know, I don't know how I got to see these things. It's very strange to me when I think of what things have influenced me.

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

And then at the same time recognizing that when they break a leg, when somebody breaks a leg, that forces you to do everything differently. And if you attend to that, that can be a wonderful thing. You know, I don't know how I got to see these things. It's very strange to me when I think of what things have influenced me.

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

I don't know how old I was, Andrew, but I'm watching this thing on television, and there's this woman who has no arms, who's got a knife between her toes, who's slicing a tomato. And, you know, it's a lot of years, you know, I've seen and done a lot of things, but for me to remember that and that, um, you know, even when we're taught to do something, we're taught a single way.

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

I don't know how old I was, Andrew, but I'm watching this thing on television, and there's this woman who has no arms, who's got a knife between her toes, who's slicing a tomato. And, you know, it's a lot of years, you know, I've seen and done a lot of things, but for me to remember that and that, um, you know, even when we're taught to do something, we're taught a single way.

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

I don't know how old I was, Andrew, but I'm watching this thing on television, and there's this woman who has no arms, who's got a knife between her toes, who's slicing a tomato. And, you know, it's a lot of years, you know, I've seen and done a lot of things, but for me to remember that and that, um, you know, even when we're taught to do something, we're taught a single way.

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

It's so much more fun to be taught multiple ways. I mean, when I, you know, hurt my right arm, I'm playing tennis poorly, but I'm still playing with my left hand. Um,

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

It's so much more fun to be taught multiple ways. I mean, when I, you know, hurt my right arm, I'm playing tennis poorly, but I'm still playing with my left hand. Um,

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

It's so much more fun to be taught multiple ways. I mean, when I, you know, hurt my right arm, I'm playing tennis poorly, but I'm still playing with my left hand. Um,

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

I have so much trouble keeping track of what's the loss and what's the gain because I don't see the world that way.

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

I have so much trouble keeping track of what's the loss and what's the gain because I don't see the world that way.

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

I have so much trouble keeping track of what's the loss and what's the gain because I don't see the world that way.

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

Whether I've transcended or not, I just think differently. But everybody accepts that. And to see the gain in the so-called loss of a loss in the so-called gain โ€“ You just end up with a very different world.

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

Whether I've transcended or not, I just think differently. But everybody accepts that. And to see the gain in the so-called loss of a loss in the so-called gain โ€“ You just end up with a very different world.

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

Whether I've transcended or not, I just think differently. But everybody accepts that. And to see the gain in the so-called loss of a loss in the so-called gain โ€“ You just end up with a very different world.

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

Yeah, but another way, you know, when I say put people back in the equation, that's what you need to teach them, which is the responses you're getting. These reviews are not from a bunch of sages in the sky. Certainly not. They're just a group of people, a group of people with different biases and so on. And, you know, it doesn't mean you were wrong.

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

Yeah, but another way, you know, when I say put people back in the equation, that's what you need to teach them, which is the responses you're getting. These reviews are not from a bunch of sages in the sky. Certainly not. They're just a group of people, a group of people with different biases and so on. And, you know, it doesn't mean you were wrong.

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

Yeah, but another way, you know, when I say put people back in the equation, that's what you need to teach them, which is the responses you're getting. These reviews are not from a bunch of sages in the sky. Certainly not. They're just a group of people, a group of people with different biases and so on. And, you know, it doesn't mean you were wrong.