in such a way that they don’t notice:

Ellen Langer had a message for the world’s elite in Davos: get “mindful”, and you will be more successful in your job, live longer, be more attractive and even get on better with your dog.”Almost all of us is mindless, and oblivious to it,” Langer, a Harvard social psychology professor, told AFP at the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of the world’s political and business big-hitters high in the Swiss Alps.

Much of what we think we believe, we learned as a child, and to lead a fuller life you should never stop questioning what you do and looking at things in a new light, she says.

“I don’t know about you but if you think you’ve all grown into such magnificent people, it may be a little scary to learn that much of what you are doing, seeing and believing is a function of your very young self,” Langer said in a talk to a small and varied Davos audience.

Your mind plays tricks on you as a result, often to your detriment, as Langer’s many examples from three decades of research show. 

My enlightenment > your enlightenment. Ellen Langer: she’s a guru amongst gurus.