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Ellen Langer Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, . is the author The Psychology of Control, Mindfulness, The Power of Mindful Learning, On Becoming an Artist and Counterclockwise. Here work has been translated into a dozen languages.She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous awards including the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest of the American Psychological Association..
Stretches our minds in startling new directions. Howard Gardner Ellen Langer has succeeded in writing a book that, in one bite, manages to be scientifically interesting, immensely practical, and dramatically absorbing. It is about the mindsets that lead human beingseven the smartest of themto become stupid and mindless. Its power as drama in demonstrating that mindlessness leads not only to the banality of dullness, but to a giving up of life itself. In a series of fascinating research studies, Dr. Langer demonstrates that the young can be made more creative, the man in charge made more effective, and the elderly kept from giving in to and dying of their age. Jerome Bruner, author of Actual Minds, Possible Worlds One simply can t finish this book and not see the world in the same way. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School A provocative, engaging essay on the relation between our mindstates and our actions, by an astute and irrepressible social scientist who obviously enjoys playing with bold ideas. Jerome Kagan, Harvard University A landmark work of social psychology. Booklist Langer. . . .has shown us the power of mindfulness. Psychology Today Extremely provocative. . . . This book cannot be read mindlessly. Robert Abelson, Yale University Female First, 1/18/15 Mindfulness is the book which changed it all. Blogging on Business (UK), 3/14/15 More relevant now than ever before.
