Dr. Ellen Langer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And those things could have just as easily been seen otherwise.
No, not at all.
Some of the positivity follows from what I'm saying, but it's certainly not the major message.
Yeah.
You can't know.
You think you can know.
People don't realize that prediction is an illusion.
We don't know.
You know, so I, in an example, say Michael Jordan and I are going to have a foul shooting contest.
All right.
So you'd put your money on Michael Jordan.
But now if we're going to shoot 100 baskets, surely he'd win.
We're going to shoot one basket.
Is he going to win?
He sometimes misses.
I sometimes make it.
Also, what if he said to himself, let the old woman win?
What is it going to cost him?
There are so many ways of understanding how I could make that basket.
You can't predict what's going to happen.