Ellen Langer - Mindfulness and Positive Psychology

[@ElizabethBiddell]

Love listening to Ellen Langer. Going to get her book The mindful body. Can't wait to read it.

[@williamjmccartan8879]

Touching on reaching, I remember as a little kid that I was always trying to reach the taps in the kitchen, so I could get my own water, yet I learned once I could reach the taps, my parents realized and said, now you can do the dishes, lessons learned. Thank you both very much for sharing your time, work, experience, and knowledge, both Ellen, and Aidan, I agree that the mindset we carry with us very much affects some of the outcomes in life, peace

[@TheInnovationShow]

A victim of your own success William!

[@bipinbhurtel3024]

Big fan of Dr. Langer from Kathmandu, Nepal. It looks from the room set up and little window that Ellen is some where in mountain region of Nepal.

[@TheInnovationShow]

She was in Mexico as we shot, but Nepal is on my bucket list. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@Innersideout]

Wonderful truths!

[@cmbzmail]

Thank you 👍 enlightening discussion.

[@gtessgossage3867]

Not good or bad but there are almost ALWAYS "workarounds ". Ways of getting a goal done using creative approaches,And allowing additional time while enjoying and having fun.( me too of the person with no fingers who ends up playing an instrument beautifully using their toes)

[@TheInnovationShow]

I love this excerpt from Henry Mintzberg’s “Rebalancing Society” “The Fresh Air of Resourcefulness Mary Parker Follett presented a paper in 1925 about three ways to deal with conflict, only one of which she favored. The first she called domination: the victory of one side over the other. The problem is that the other side “will simply wait for its chance to dominate.” We have seen this way in various revolutions and see too much of it in our current imbalance. A second way she called compromise: “each side gives up a little in order to have peace.” But with neither side satisfied, Follett concluded that the conflict will keep coming back. We have been seeing too much of this way, too. Follett favored a third way, which she called integration: moving the debate to another place, getting back to basics to find common ground: Integration involves invention . . . and the clever thing is to recognize this and not to let one’s think- ing stay within the boundaries of two alternatives which are mutually exclusive. In other words, never let yourself be bullied by an either-or situation. . . . Find a third way. Follett used a simple example. She was in a small room in a library where someone wanted the window open, to get fresh air. But she wanted it closed, to avoid the draft. So they opened a window in the next room. This solution was hardly brilliant or creative, just resourceful. All it took were two open minds and some goodwill. We desperately need more such fresh air today.”