Dr. Ellen Langer

Next time you're with your best friend, your spouse, notice three new things about them.

And you just keep noticing new things about the things you thought you knew.

And at some point, you come to see, hey, I didn't know it as well as I thought I did.

And then your attention naturally goes to it.

So the idea was if we can take the mind and put the mind in a younger place, you know, and take our measurements from our bodies,

will we get any effect?

So what we did was we retrofitted a retreat to 20 years earlier, and we had elderly men live there as if they were the younger souls.

Now, it's interesting because they're around 80, but that was when

Not when 80 is now the new 60.

Yes.

They were really old.

In fact, you know, when they would show up to see if they could be in the study, and, you know, I'm here and they're coming in and they're walking, and I say, why am I doing this?

Because I didn't know if they were going to be able to live through the day.

No, and so I set them up at this retreat where I'm in charge of everything in their lives.

I mean, if I realized then what I was taking on, but I'm glad that I did it because the results were very exciting.

So basically, we have old men living in this place, not Hollywood, because I couldn't afford it, but as well as we could make it seem as if it was 20 years earlier.

Yeah, yeah.

And so they would be speaking about the Cuban Missile Crisis and other events of the past as if it was just happening, right?

And they'd be watching television shows and movies from the past as if,

They had just been produced.