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Article/book review: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Art-of-Living-Mindfully/63292/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
Book: http://www.amazon.com/Counterclockw...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262812469&sr=8-1
I think I'll check this out. If there's anything I love, it's figuring out how to have more control over my health and happiness. I like this quote at the end of the article:
She draws an analogy to Pascal's wager, substituting "control" for "God": If you believe you have no control and you truly don't, "no big deal." If you believe you have control and it turns out you do, "that's the big win." And if you don't have control but you believe you do, you are actively engaged in something, feeling alive and effective—and you may just be successful someday. "You can't prove that something is uncontrollable," Langer says, "All you can show is that things are indeterminate." The best gamble, then, is to act as if you have control.
She rephrases it with typical bravado: "Nothing is uncontrollable. We just don't yet know how to control it."
Book: http://www.amazon.com/Counterclockw...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262812469&sr=8-1
I think I'll check this out. If there's anything I love, it's figuring out how to have more control over my health and happiness. I like this quote at the end of the article:
She draws an analogy to Pascal's wager, substituting "control" for "God": If you believe you have no control and you truly don't, "no big deal." If you believe you have control and it turns out you do, "that's the big win." And if you don't have control but you believe you do, you are actively engaged in something, feeling alive and effective—and you may just be successful someday. "You can't prove that something is uncontrollable," Langer says, "All you can show is that things are indeterminate." The best gamble, then, is to act as if you have control.
She rephrases it with typical bravado: "Nothing is uncontrollable. We just don't yet know how to control it."
