Dr. Ellen Langer
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Just do it.
Would you try to eat an ice cream cone?
No, you do it.
You just do it.
So trying has built into it the possibility of failing.
So not doing it, trying, when you're thinking and feeling, not nearly as good as just the doing.
So it goes through lots of ways where, in fact, there's a world that's so much better than the world most people experience.
I went to visit a friend many years ago who had a very bad case of cancer, and I said, Eva, how are you?
She said, they told me my cancer's in remission.
At that moment, I thought, well, wait a second.
If I had the very same test
They probably tell me I don't have cancer.
Why is it I don't have it, but she has it in remission?
Now, if you think it's in remission, you're still stressed.
Hopefully it doesn't come back.
Exactly.
If you're cured, you don't have that stress.
Interesting.
Yeah.
And so, again, remission is better than it being active, but not nearly as good as it being cured.