Dr. Ellen Langer
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That's fascinating.
What would you say are, you know, that study was a while ago, right?
Yeah.
Now that was, let's see, we designed it in 1979.
Wow.
Yeah, a long time before you were born.
Remember, it's all one, mind and body.
So we don't have a psychological as opposed to a biological sense.
So it's both.
It's the mind and the body.
But I thought you were asking me, so I'm going to answer the question I thought you were going to ask, not the one that you did, which was, how has the world changed?
Because that's a lot of years.
And way back at the beginning, the medical model believed that psychology was more or less irrelevant.
Now, I'm sure everybody thought it was nice to be happy
but that wasn't going to affect your physical health.
Now that's changed.
And now what most people believe is a bio-social model.
So these things like stress and so on matter, but they don't go nearly as far.
And I'm saying,
down the road, psychology will be the most important aspect of your well-being.