Ellen Langer thinks so. And she has the research to prove it.
I first began reading Ellen Langer when she wrote Mindfulness
Now, so many baby boomers are striving to stay healthy. We are all aging; there is no cure for that. There is not point to being anti-aging. On the other hand there is also no reason to go peacefully into that good night.
Do we age based on reality? Or are we too strongly influenced by myths and common expectations of aging?
Dr. Langer’s new book, Counter Clockwise (You can pick it up below), presents a new view on aging. Context, beliefs, societal myths, trust in the first opinion of the medical profession, may create a self-fulfilling prophecy that invents an often unnecessary infirmity and brain health losss over time.
It’s a great read and here is the book -
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[...] taken more to heart at the time. He called it …Retirement in IncrementsLike you, I’m a baby boomer. I’m not the smartest guy in the world. It takes me a while to latch on to an idea sometimes. [...]