Can Your Mind Change How You Age? | Ellen Langer

Aging may have less to do with your body than you think. In this fascinating conversation, Chip Conley talks with Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, whose groundbreaking research has spent decades challenging what we think we know about aging, health, mindfulness, and human potential. Drawing on stories from her life and her famous Counterclockwise study, Ellen explains why many of the limits we accept as part of growing older may be more flexible than we realize. In this episode, you'll discover: • Why mindfulness begins with simply noticing • What Ellen's Counterclockwise study revealed about aging • How our beliefs influence memory, health, and performance • Why uncertainty can make life richer, not scarier • How questioning assumptions can open new possibilities at any age Warm, thought-provoking, and often surprisingly funny, this conversation will leave you looking at aging, and life itself, in a completely different way. Listen now and find out why Ellen believes we're capable of far more than we think. Timestamps: 01:37 What Mindfulness Really Means 04:48 Why We Live Mindlessly 08:16 Is Mindlessness More Efficient? 11:46 Mindfulness and Aging 13:06 Memory Loss or Something Else? 17:26 The Counterclockwise Study 20:00 Testing Mind-Body Unity 24:02 Can You Turn Back the Clock? 25:07 Learning New Skills at Any Age 27:45 Fixed Mindsets About Aging 28:50 Who Says So? 32:04 What Gets Better With Age? 36:03 Getting Comfortable in Your Own Skin 37:44 Will Ellen Ever Retire? 39:11 Ellen’s Core Life Lesson 40:33 The Story Behind Mind-Body Unity 43:24 Finding Opportunity in Adversity 45:25 Coming Full Circle to Mindfulness Learn more about MEA at ⁠https://www.meawisdom.com/ #EllenLanger #Mindfulness #HealthyAging #Longevity #AgingWell #PositiveAging #Psychology #Mindset #PersonalGrowth #MentalHealth #HarvardPsychology #SuccessfulAging #CounterclockwiseStudy #MidlifeChrysalis #ChipConley