Dr. Ellen Langer

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Now, people don't like not knowing because they think you can know.

And what I'm here to tell everybody is you can't know.

So what you need to do to live the kind of life that I'm suggesting is be confident and uncertain.

If you think you should know, then you pretend.

But you can't know.

Now, that makes everything possible.

Now, I was at this horse event many years ago.

After this, I'm going to use only news stories.

Okay.

And this man asked me if I'd watch his horse for him because he was going to give his horse a hot dog.

Well, as you might know from the credentials you read, I was an A-plus student.

So I knew, as well as anyone in this world, that's ridiculous.

Horses are herbivorous.

They don't eat meat.

he came back with the hot dog and the horse ate it.

And at that moment I realized everything I thought I knew could be wrong.

Now for me that was actually exciting because that meant that everything was possible.

All of those things that we were taught are impossible, not to strive for, actually became available in a whole different way.

The next step in the reasoning for me was to say that, you know, recognize that experiments, science, science give us our facts mostly, right?