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Ellen Langer's book recommendations
Key facts
- Ellen Langer has recommended or discussed 2 books on podcasts, as of February 24, 2025.
- Ellen Langer has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of February 24, 2025.
- Those books came up in 3 episodes, as of February 24, 2025.
- The 2 books Ellen Langer has mentioned in the most episodes, as of February 24, 2025: The Mindful Body and Counterclockwise.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Ellen Langer aired on February 24, 2025.
Updated
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Ellen Langer appears on, in one place, not just one.
Ellen Jane Langer is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at Harvard University. In 1981, she became the first woman to be tenured in psychology at Harvard, and she has been called the mother of mindfulness and positive psychology. During podcast appearances, Ellen Langer discussed her work and her books, including The Mindful Body and Counterclockwise. When discussing The Mindful Body, she shared how she initially intended for the book to be a memoir containing many personal stories and explained that it originally featured a chapter about unusual experiences that her publisher later asked her to trim down significantly. She also used examples from the book to illustrate her process of reframing difficult personal experiences, such as losing her home in a fire. Furthermore, Langer referenced Counterclockwise while discussing her past research and the various bureaucratic hurdles and review committees she navigated when attempting to secure approval for her studies. Throughout her discussions, she emphasized the core themes of her research into the mind-body connection, demonstrating how mindfulness and cognitive framing can fundamentally influence physical health, personal well-being, and our everyday perceptions of aging and control.
Books Ellen Langer recommended or discussed
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The Mindful Body
Discussed“you know the example I gave in the mindful body I came home from dinner at a friend's house and all of my neighbors were outside”
Where to get it
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Counterclockwise
Discussed“So let me tell you something; I think that this was actually, I don't remember the year, but it was a long time ago, so it might have even been before things were bureaucratic. You still had people on these review committees who I disagreed with vehemently. So I want to do this study; I actually talk about this in”
Where to get it
Books by Ellen Langer
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Mindfulness
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Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making
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The power of mindful learning
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Higher stages of human development
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On Becoming an Artist
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Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness
Appearances
Other mentions (15: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I think I tell it in the mindful body but I haven't told it on podcast before.”
“one of the titles for the the book that you have there that I'm very excited about the mindful body you know when you write a book then you have to think what should you call it and one of the names for the book early on was who says so”
“you know that when I wrote the on becoming an artist book so I started painting when I was about 50 and um great fun uh and so many things came to my mind”
“so in the mindful body which started off as a memoir I have lots of stories that show the leading up to this idea”
“one of the earlier titles of the mindful body was who says so love it and you know realizing that everything that is was at one point a decision made by people with different motives”
“and the people I'm with you know there's a lot in the mindful body that deals with language and only a fraction of the Sensitivity I seem to have”
“and you know a slide that I put on, but I give some of these talks in my view that virtually I don't really mean virtually I have to say because I'm an academic right all I believe all of our ills all of them Andrew personal interpersonal professional Global are the indirect or direct effect of our mindlessness”
“did you read the mindful body? I talk about a mindful Hospital which would be different from uh the ground up”
“so a checklist um and even the checklist well better than no checklist there's a better than better way we talk a lot about that in in the mindful body that the checklist needs to be a mindful checklist”
“and experience new things um I feel like um I've just combined 12 different areas here masterfully and masterfully masterfully”
“and as I talk about in the mindful body if you understand it obviates the necessity for blame”
“If you blame, you certainly should learn how to forgive, but as I talk about in the mindful body, if you understand it obviates the necessity for blame, and if you don't blame, then you don't need to forgive.”
“you mentioned fatigue so um in the mindful body I have I present some research on fatigue”
“so I talk a lot in the mindful body about Mind Body unity and tell me what you think of this”
“I actually talk about this in the mindful body and this which we ended up doing”