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Ellen J. Langer, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Harvard University, is the author of Personal Politics (with Carol Dweck), The Psychology of Control, and Mindfulness, which has been published in ten countries. She is also coeditor of Higher Stages of Development and Beliefs, Attitudes and Decision Making. 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.
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Very meaningful book although a tad bit hard to read owning to use of longer words. The book makes great case for the role of curiosity and open mindedness toward learning. It rightly showcases how being pressed for a preconceived or specific outcomes can stifle our interest in and curiosity for a subject, limiting our ability to look at it from different perspectives, reducing our ability to enhance and retain our knowledge of the same.
The book also cautions teachers, parents, or any experts in becoming too narrow focused on specific outcomes. It instead brings in the mindful insight that every answer is correct in a specific context. Instead of immediately correcting a seemingly wrong answer (a triangle must have 180 as sum of its angles) it is useful to explore the context with open minded curiosity to understand the context and other perspectives (on a curved surface a triangle has more than 180 as sum of its angles).
Stay curious, approach all work/experience/play/situations with multiple perspectives, don't reject anything until you understand the context from which it emanates, seek to understand the context rather than judge problems and situations.
I teach, so this book gave me a lot to think about.
Her first book (MindfulnessMindfulness, 25th anniversary edition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)) is a better overview of her work and had a better emphasis on her experiments, but this book is more directed at the practicality of mindfulness - both when raising children and in an educational environment. It's not a step-by-step recipe book. It does not have a collection of activities. Instead, it discusses things one might think about when designing activities.
This book confirmed my notion that most people are smart but have differing approaches or calibrations to learning and thinking. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on Creative Distraction. It was a great relief to learn that paying attention can be fostered by working with the mind and brain's natural inclination towards variety rather than working against the grain in trying to stay focused in counterproductive regimens of trying to wear horse blinders and hold one's focus like a still camera. I would highly recommend anyone wanting to keep learning and personal growth alive throughout their life to read this book. I certainly wish Ihad read it before going to college rather than after.
This should be a main study for all forms of teachers/facilitators. With well over 40 years in the teaching process, I've found that every one of the suggestion covered by Ellen Langer in this bock are absolutely the key to being able to actually create creators instead of producing robots. Our entire social structure would change in a very short period of time if the techniques were incorporated into all classrooms. The best teacher / facilitator will always say "I don't know what would you do?" It is only through the our now present proces of stating "this is how it's done" do we eliminate creativeness in our world.
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