Dr. Ellen Langer
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That would be fine if we couldn't train the rest of them. But it would lead us to different views of language.
Yeah. I would use the methods of the field. It was just the questions that were different. So they weren't seen to be quite as different as you're suggesting. Did any of your colleagues think like โ No.
Yeah. I would use the methods of the field. It was just the questions that were different. So they weren't seen to be quite as different as you're suggesting. Did any of your colleagues think like โ No.
Yeah. I would use the methods of the field. It was just the questions that were different. So they weren't seen to be quite as different as you're suggesting. Did any of your colleagues think like โ No.
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No.
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No, even to me. I mean perhaps behind my back.
No, even to me. I mean perhaps behind my back.
No, even to me. I mean perhaps behind my back.
Like, well, maybe cookies are the nutritious stuff. No, I understand. So I seem to be, you know. Come hell or high water, I'm going to do it. I'm not like that at all. Interesting. More now that I'm older. But I tell a story. I don't remember what the point of it, the exact point was in The Mindful Body where I'm at the dentist. I'm a little kid. I don't remember how old.
Like, well, maybe cookies are the nutritious stuff. No, I understand. So I seem to be, you know. Come hell or high water, I'm going to do it. I'm not like that at all. Interesting. More now that I'm older. But I tell a story. I don't remember what the point of it, the exact point was in The Mindful Body where I'm at the dentist. I'm a little kid. I don't remember how old.
Like, well, maybe cookies are the nutritious stuff. No, I understand. So I seem to be, you know. Come hell or high water, I'm going to do it. I'm not like that at all. Interesting. More now that I'm older. But I tell a story. I don't remember what the point of it, the exact point was in The Mindful Body where I'm at the dentist. I'm a little kid. I don't remember how old.
And I remember my mother came in and the dentist told my mother what a good patient I was. And all I remember was my saying, what were the other kids doing? So it wasn't as if I made a choice. I could do this or I could do โ it never occurred to me. And so lots of these ideas are not against or โ I don't know where they come from. I know Lee Ross when โ so Lee was a professor at Stanford.
And I remember my mother came in and the dentist told my mother what a good patient I was. And all I remember was my saying, what were the other kids doing? So it wasn't as if I made a choice. I could do this or I could do โ it never occurred to me. And so lots of these ideas are not against or โ I don't know where they come from. I know Lee Ross when โ so Lee was a professor at Stanford.
And I remember my mother came in and the dentist told my mother what a good patient I was. And all I remember was my saying, what were the other kids doing? So it wasn't as if I made a choice. I could do this or I could do โ it never occurred to me. And so lots of these ideas are not against or โ I don't know where they come from. I know Lee Ross when โ so Lee was a professor at Stanford.
And I remember having a conversation where he said, Ellen, you're from Mars. And I said, I'm not so different. He says, OK, so you're a normal, not an exceptional Martian, but you're still a Martian.
And I remember having a conversation where he said, Ellen, you're from Mars. And I said, I'm not so different. He says, OK, so you're a normal, not an exceptional Martian, but you're still a Martian.
And I remember having a conversation where he said, Ellen, you're from Mars. And I said, I'm not so different. He says, OK, so you're a normal, not an exceptional Martian, but you're still a Martian.
And then a colleague had a conversation with โ and I was flattered by this, but I think it wasn't meant to be flattering because they were worried what my reaction was, was that I'm from a different time. And so that plays differently if you're aware, right? So when I started painting, I was breaking the rules to some people's minds. But no, I didn't know the rule.