Dr. Ellen Langer
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Then we freeze it, as I was saying with how do you stop on ice in a car?
everybody learns, you gently pump the brakes.
And they're doing that even though now.
Until they innovate new technology.
Right.
And now it's actually counterproductive.
Yeah.
Wow.
Forever.
And I guess...
Well, it would be recognizing that everything that is could be different.
Everything that is was a decision so that people don't give up their own way because the rule says.
Because that's skill set.
It's all part of just being mindful.
When you notice...
if you're going to actively notice, you're going to see that things depend on context.
You're going to see that, well, this person, you're right-handed, but I'm looking at you right now, assuming you were left-handed, and we had a culture in the past that tried to make you right-handed.
Fine.
There's an advantage to being left-handed.
There's an advantage to being right-handed.