Dr. Ellen Langer

he came back with the hot dog and the horse ate it.

And at that moment I realized everything I thought I knew could be wrong.

Now for me that was actually exciting because that meant that everything was possible.

All of those things that we were taught are impossible, not to strive for, actually became available in a whole different way.

The next step in the reasoning for me was to say that, you know, recognize that experiments, science, science give us our facts mostly, right?

But that science only gives us probabilities.

There's no experiment that gives you anything absolute.

So it's sort of most horses under the conditions that were tested didn't eat the meat, which is very different from all horses never eat meat.

Right.

And it's very important for one's health because you have to realize that any information you're given is a best guess.

Now, it's an educated guess, but it's still not an absolute.

Well, what I'm saying is the way of thinking should be no different, which is life is exciting when you address it as brand new, when you're not afraid of trying new things, when you recognize that all of the stops you've put on yourself were just decisions that some other people made and there's no reason not to do whatever it is you want to do.

you don't want to hurt anybody but for people to say you're too old to play tennis or you're too old to I don't know what are people to I don't pay any attention to it so I can't generate the instances but you know one of the earlier titles of the book was who says so

And I think that that's a refrain that people should, and that's where they're similar, not to 10 year olds, but I think two or three year olds.

Who says so?

Right, right, right.

Yeah, yeah.

People have asked me that.

It's, you know,

I don't know if it's my being dense or what it is that it's hard for me to answer.