Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. In 1981, she became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard.

Dr. Langer has described her work on the illusion of control, aging, decision-making, and mindfulness theory in over 200 research articles and six academic books. Her work has led to numerous academic honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest of the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Contributions of Basic Science to Applied Psychology award from the American Association of Applied & Preventive Psychology, the James McKeen Cattel Award, and the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize.

In this conversation today, Ellen & I discuss:

00:00 - The Power of the Human Mind

07:57 - How The Mind Can Heal the Body

10:49 - Perceptions of time influence healing

17:23 - Challenging fixed beliefs

28:02 - Stress Management and Decision-Making

32:04 - Embracing the imperfect decision

39:18 - The True Power of Mindfulness

44:49 - Re-write the rule book

55:00 - What makes a life worth living?

56:00 - Connect with Ellen

Links:

https://scholar.harvard.edu/langer/biocv

http://ellenlanger.com

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