Dr. Ellen Langer

They go to the subway, and the subway stations seem to be the same all over the world.

They see everybody is taking the escalator, and there are stairs and escalators.

Everybody's taking the escalator.

Then they lay down a piano, keys on the stairs.

So as you go upstairs, it goes whoop, whoop.

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.