Dr. Ellen Langer

At some point, become your three-year-old self again.

Who says so?

Who decided this?

Because it turns out that everything that is everything was at one point a decision.

That means somebody.

said it should be like this.

And as I'm saying now, the more different you are from that person, the more important it is for you not to mindlessly fall in line.

Just accept that everything is uncertain.

Well, when you're about to do anything new, you know, somebody says, this is how you do it.

You have to recognize, well, that may be how you do it, but not necessarily the best way for me to do it.

When people say, virtually everything, you know, lots of people buy into the notion that as you get older, it all falls apart.

To me, it just gets better and better.

You know, that when you think about it, Mel, so you're two years old, you scrape your knee and you're crying bloody murder.

You're five or six, Johnny or Jane doesn't send you a Valentine's, you're going to be rejected for life.

You're 13, you have a pimple, life is over.

The belief, as you get older, it falls apart.

Believing that mindlessly often leads to it falling apart.

I'm at the age, I'm 78, and lots of my friends talk about senior moments, which is cute that we have a name for it.

You can't remember something.

Part of the reason you can't remember is because you know so much.