Dr. Ellen Langer
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And sometimes less than is because you actually know more than rather than less than.
Interesting.
It's interesting that when we're putting people down...
And talk about three levels here.
So let's imagine we have a little kid who's uninhibited.
Now, then we have people like us, more you, your age, that are inhibited.
What does inhibited mean?
You know the rules.
You're supposed to do this.
You're not supposed to do that.
And you comply.
Then hopefully, hopefully,
you get to a certain point where you say, who cares?
Now, that behavior of the who cares, the old person, may resemble the young person.
And it's a mistake to think of that person as behaving childishly.
So they're not uninhibited, the way the child is.
They're disinhibited.
Yeah.
But the point here, the larger point that I'm making is that when you see somebody behaving in a way where you're
taking them to task, diminishing them, it may actually be that they're more evolved than you are, rather than less.