Dr. Ellen Langer
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And in almost no time, everybody's now taking the stairs.
And so what I tell my students, why wait for someone to put
you know to put the piano keys down there you can do you know sing yourself as you go up the stairs everything can be made fun but in this world we've decided these these things are work and work is supposed to be stressful these things are fun as a result when you're not working you're not having fun you're stressed because why aren't having fun and i think it doesn't take much to to change some of this
Most of it just comes from realizing that it was put in place at one time to serve the needs of certain people.
And that if it doesn't serve your needs, change it.
Yeah, this is a hard one.
Make the decision right.
This is so important that I don't know.
Reading it, I think, is easier than listening to me talk about it.
But let me tell you.
Okay, so.
The most stressful thing in the world for people are making decisions.
Now, remember I said stress is the major killer.
Okay, so let's look at decision making.
Okay, we go back and add up some of the things I've already said.
The first is there's no such thing as good or bad.
That's a frame you put on things.
Things in and of themselves are neither good nor bad.
So if you were making a decision, and what you're gonna do is a cost-benefit analysis,
If every cost is a benefit and every benefit is a, you can't add them up.