Dr. Ellen Langer

Whatever it is you saw, you would notice because you knew you didn't know and you'd be curious.

And, you know, once you're noticing the neurons are firing and that's figuratively and literally enlivening.

So that's all you have to do.

Now, the problem is the world has taught us to divide work and play, for instance.

And that work has to be bad.

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?