Win the Day 267. The Mindset Reset That Will Make 2026 Your Best Year Ever with Dr. Ellen Langer (Harvard psychologist) | From the Vault🧠
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harvard psychologist, Dr. Ellen Langer, is known as the mother of mindfulness.
Through her 13 bestselling books and 200+ research articles, Dr. Langer’s research has significantly advanced the literature on positive psychology, health, and human performance — and appeared in everything from The New York Times to The Simpsons.
Her new book The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health has just been released.
In this episode:
- How labels, positive or negative, can alter your destiny
- Proven psychological tips to upgrade your daily routine
- How to adjust the behavior of someone important to you
- Thinking your way out of chronic stress and anxiety; and
- How to harness the power of your own mind to dramatically increase your health, happiness, and performance.
Let’s WIN THE DAY with Dr. Ellen Langer!
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Timemarkers:
0:17 Who is Ellen Langer
1:51 Interview starts
3:10 What does it mean to be “mindful” vs “mindless”?
4:23 How to become more mindful
7:45 Everything you know can be wrong
9:19 Facts are just probabilities
11:24 How Ellen Langer comes up with a research study
12:01 What is the counterclockwise study
15:40 Mind-body unity
17:52 How Ellen Langer sets goals
20:29 The Mindful Body by Dr. Ellen Langer
22:09 Our expectations tend to be fulfilled (do instead of try)
25:19 Behavior makes sense from the actor’s perspective
27:11 How to turn a bad habit into a good habit
30:46 Where mindfulness meets high performance
32:17 How to change someone’s behavior
37:20 Why the medical system is failing us
40:21 Stress is psychological
43:44 Why we trust pills, prescriptions, and professionals
49:38 Instant gratification
52:39 The unknown power of the human mind
56:54 How to make decisions (make the decision right)
1:01:43 Affirmation
1:03:25 Rocket Round
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PS — In case you missed it: Your Path to Health, Healing, and Happiness with Dr. David Rabin 💗 (neuroscientist; psychiatrist; founder, Apollo Neuro): Ep 176