Dr. Ellen Langer
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I mean, you know, I use this example a lot also.
And I'll stop saying that.
I'm a tennis player.
And, you know, I throw the ball.
I kill it.
It doesn't go in.
I throw it up and then I have a wuss, very weak, second serve because I'm playing doubles and I don't want to get everybody angry.
If I had created the game of tennis, you'd have three serves.
The first one, I kill it.
Second one, now I'm going to learn from that first one.
I kill it again.
More often it's going to go in.
And I still have my backup third serve.
Nobody would think that two serves somehow comes from the heavens.
This is the way it has to be.
So who decided?
Now, it doesn't mean we have to change the rules for each of us.
It does mean that when you don't do it as well as somebody else, you recognize it's only because of the way the rules were written.
At my 5'3", I'm going to break more dishes than you are, right?
Who decided that the cabinet should be all the way up there?