Dr. Ellen Langer
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was criticized because I didn't publish it in a standard journal because my assumption of the โ it's very hard if you're doing something over a week's time to control every possibility.
was criticized because I didn't publish it in a standard journal because my assumption of the โ it's very hard if you're doing something over a week's time to control every possibility.
And what I was trying to do in that study was to show that vision, for example, can be improved, that lots of the things that people presume are wired in as you get older, it gets worse and worse, that it just doesn't have to be that way. But I'm having trouble remembering now because I know that I was going to write a paper about taking the whole science of science apart and never did.
And what I was trying to do in that study was to show that vision, for example, can be improved, that lots of the things that people presume are wired in as you get older, it gets worse and worse, that it just doesn't have to be that way. But I'm having trouble remembering now because I know that I was going to write a paper about taking the whole science of science apart and never did.
And what I was trying to do in that study was to show that vision, for example, can be improved, that lots of the things that people presume are wired in as you get older, it gets worse and worse, that it just doesn't have to be that way. But I'm having trouble remembering now because I know that I was going to write a paper about taking the whole science of science apart and never did.
And if I had written the paper, I'd probably remember what I was going to say and answer your question. But it's a good one. But I don't think that there's anything that is described as absolute that's going to be right, whether it's physics, even physics, biology, psychology, anything. that our methods can only take us so far.
And if I had written the paper, I'd probably remember what I was going to say and answer your question. But it's a good one. But I don't think that there's anything that is described as absolute that's going to be right, whether it's physics, even physics, biology, psychology, anything. that our methods can only take us so far.
And if I had written the paper, I'd probably remember what I was going to say and answer your question. But it's a good one. But I don't think that there's anything that is described as absolute that's going to be right, whether it's physics, even physics, biology, psychology, anything. that our methods can only take us so far.
And the people who get beyond that are the people who don't presume that that's as far as you can go. You know, if you can go this way, you can go a little further. I was a chemistry major when I was an undergraduate, and the problem was I practiced Jewish chemistry, which was a little is good, a little more is better, which is not the way to do chemistry.
And the people who get beyond that are the people who don't presume that that's as far as you can go. You know, if you can go this way, you can go a little further. I was a chemistry major when I was an undergraduate, and the problem was I practiced Jewish chemistry, which was a little is good, a little more is better, which is not the way to do chemistry.
And the people who get beyond that are the people who don't presume that that's as far as you can go. You know, if you can go this way, you can go a little further. I was a chemistry major when I was an undergraduate, and the problem was I practiced Jewish chemistry, which was a little is good, a little more is better, which is not the way to do chemistry.
But I don't know what it is that leads some people to be rigid. and to take everything that is told to them as if it must be and what it is that led me to a different way of being and testing it or just thinking that some of the things that people say just made no sense to me.
But I don't know what it is that leads some people to be rigid. and to take everything that is told to them as if it must be and what it is that led me to a different way of being and testing it or just thinking that some of the things that people say just made no sense to me.
But I don't know what it is that leads some people to be rigid. and to take everything that is told to them as if it must be and what it is that led me to a different way of being and testing it or just thinking that some of the things that people say just made no sense to me.
Yeah. And I think those are beautiful examples because, you know, one can make an argument that you should wear a mask, but the other side also makes sense. The way masks were preventing, you know, even nonverbal communication, which is very important and important to people's health, right? Your relationships are not an inconsequential part of your well-being. And, you
Yeah. And I think those are beautiful examples because, you know, one can make an argument that you should wear a mask, but the other side also makes sense. The way masks were preventing, you know, even nonverbal communication, which is very important and important to people's health, right? Your relationships are not an inconsequential part of your well-being. And, you
Yeah. And I think those are beautiful examples because, you know, one can make an argument that you should wear a mask, but the other side also makes sense. The way masks were preventing, you know, even nonverbal communication, which is very important and important to people's health, right? Your relationships are not an inconsequential part of your well-being. And, you
vaccines, you know, there is no treatment that's going to be good for everybody. Somebody very close to me, if given dexedrine, puts her to sleep.
vaccines, you know, there is no treatment that's going to be good for everybody. Somebody very close to me, if given dexedrine, puts her to sleep.