What if everything you believe about your health, your limits, and your potential is based on rules written by someone completely different from you?
Dr. Ellen Langer — the first woman tenured in Harvard's psychology department — has spent over 40 years studying what happens when we stop paying attention to our own lives. Her answer is both simple and radical: mindfulness has nothing to do with meditation. It's about noticing. And when we notice, everything changes — including our health, our relationships, and how we experience time.
In this conversation with Shaun Maslyk, Ellen explores why we're all mindless most of the time, why forgiveness might be overrated, how a horse eating a hot dog changed her entire research trajectory, and why the rules you're following were written by someone who isn't you.
