Dr. Ellen Langer

So let me tell you where this came from.

we are having lots of furniture coming uh to be uh stored in a basement i see the amount of furniture i know the size of the basement and i say to myself there is no way no way that all of that is going to fit this man who does some work for us who has no sense of himself he is uneducated

everything negative, right, in his mind.

He takes the furniture, fits it all in where it's all accessible.

And when I saw that, the first thing that I thought, it's not fair.

And he couldn't do it.

And I thought maybe some things would change during COVID when you saw how important somebody who's delivering toilet paper is relevant to, more important than the architect at that moment.

But to recognize that everybody doesn't know something

Everybody knows something else.

Everybody can do something.

Everyone can do something else.

And to question, when I talk about talent and things like that in the book here, who chose the criteria?

You know, to say, you're good, you're not as good, and so on.

When I said before about the six-foot-five guy and I doing things differently, he wrote the rules.

Now, the more similar you are to him, the white, tall male, the better you'll be at whatever you're doing.

More important to understand the more different you are from the person who wrote the rules, the more important it is for you to find your own way of doing it.

And everything we teach is this is the way.

No, this isn't the way.

This is the way for that person who determined the rules of the game.

It's very important.