Dr. Ellen Langer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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You're going to get sick.
And sickness and aging are not the same thing.
One can live their entire life without illness.
And the way to live one's life is essentially the same when you're 10 years old or when you're 80 years old.
Just by knowing you don't know,
and tuning in.
Now, people don't like not knowing because they think you can know.
And what I'm here to tell everybody is you can't know.
So what you need to do to live the kind of life that I'm suggesting is be confident and uncertain.
If you think you should know, then you pretend.
But you can't know.
Now, that makes everything possible.
Now, I was at this horse event many years ago.
After this, I'm going to use only news stories.
Okay.
And this man asked me if I'd watch his horse for him because he was going to give his horse a hot dog.
Well, as you might know from the credentials you read, I was an A-plus student.
So I knew, as well as anyone in this world, that's ridiculous.
Horses are herbivorous.
They don't eat meat.