Dr. Ellen Langer

It doesn't go in.

I throw it up and then I have a wuss, very weak, second serve because I'm playing doubles and I don't want to get everybody angry.

If I had created the game of tennis, you'd have three serves.

The first one, I kill it.

Second one, now I'm going to learn from that first one.

I kill it again.

More often it's going to go in.

And I still have my backup third serve.

Nobody would think that two serves somehow comes from the heavens.

This is the way it has to be.

So who decided?

Now, it doesn't mean we have to change the rules for each of us.

It does mean that when you don't do it as well as somebody else, you recognize it's only because of the way the rules were written.

At my 5'3", I'm going to break more dishes than you are, right?

Who decided that the cabinet should be all the way up there?

Yeah.

Mechanically, it's not very difficult to have the shelves change height.

But we don't think about that because we hold everything still.

We think that everything that is had some good reason for it being that way.

And the reason is just that a group of people made the decision for it to be that way.