Dr. Ellen Langer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So for students, it can be play and study, work and life.
And again, I object strenuously that- Bring play into your work.
Exactly.
And people talk about work-life balance.
I have so many of these in the book where here is bad, then the experts help us to get here, it's better.
not as nearly as good as it could be.
Work-life balance is better than work-life imbalance.
But better still is work-life integration.
Make it one thing.
Don't be a different person at work.
That there should be a certain seriousness to even play and playfulness to our work.
We have studies where we just have people notice things about whatever they're doing
And it ends up fun.
We had people, this is a study.
So what did we do?
We gave people index cards that had on them jokes.
Jokes.
And their job was to evaluate how funny the joke was.
Okay, so for half of the people, it was a job.
For half of the people, it was just an activity.