By Ellen J. Langer
ISBN-10: 0738218006
ISBN-13: 9780738218007
Ellen J. Langer, Harvard professor of psychology, determines that the senseless following of regimen and different automated behaviors result in a lot blunders, discomfort and a predetermined process lifestyles. during this thought-provoking publication, her learn has been "translated" for the lay reader. With anecdotes and metaphors, Langer explains how the mindless—as against the mindful—develop mindsets of different types, institutions, behavior of idea born of repetition in adolescence and all through education. To take into account, she notes, stressing method over consequence, permits loose rein to instinct and creativity, and opens us to new details and views. Langer discusses the destructive influence of mindsets on enterprise and social family, displaying distinct hindrance for the aged, who usually be afflicted by discovered helplessness and absence of ideas. Encouraging the applying of mindfulness to well-being, the writer affirms that placebos and substitute, mind-based treatments may help sufferers and addicts movement from bad to fit contexts.
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Bette Davis said, “Old age is no place for sissies,” and at 50, I’ve come to believe her. I’ve also come to believe that 50 is the new 30, at least as far as I’m concerned. The dread I recall when I was approaching my 30th birthday was clearly out of proportion to anything that actually happened on or after that fateful day. So when 50 rolled around, it was a piece of cake in every sense of the word. I was now firmly planted in adulthood and, clearly, my own person in my own career. Who would have thought?
You can read whatever you want, whenever you want. Be it trashy novels or literary classics, both feed your brain and enrich your life. You’re old enough to know that now, so pig out at the bookstore and read what you want. No more hiding “trashy” books under your bed, in the closet, or out in the garage. After all, you’re 50 and your own person! Besides, you can tell them, studies show that reading helps stave off Alzheimer’s disease. So let Danielle Steele, or any other writer you like, come to your cognitive rescue.
True beauty is about accepting and feeling good about who you are. Here are some of the things to do as you approach your 50th birthday: • Stop obsessing. Instead of stewing over your “flaws” and the things you don’t like about yourself, look at what’s right. I can’t tell you how many times women come to my makeup counter so fixated on the size and shape of one feature that they overlook everything else. When a woman asks me how to make her nose appear smaller, I point out her amazing smile and show her how to enhance her lips with the right lipstick and gloss.
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