The Power of Mindful Learning

Ellen J. Langer

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Radical in its implications, this original and important work may change forever the views we hold about the nature of learning. In The Power of Mindful Learning, Ellen Langer uses her innovative theory of mindulness, introduced in her influential earlier book, to dramatically enhance the way we learn. In business, sports, laboratories, or at home, our learning is hobbled by certain antiquated and pervasive misconceptions. In this pithy, liberating, and delightful book she gives us a fresh, new view of learning in the broadest sense. Such familiar notions as delayed gratification, ”the basics”, or even ”right answers”, are all incapacitating myths which Langer explodes one by one. She replaces them with her concept of mindful or conditional learning which she demonstrates, with fascinating examples from her research, to be extraordinarily effective. Mindful learning takes place with an awareness of context and of the ever-changing nature of information. Learning without this awareness, as Langer shows convincingly, has severely limited uses and often sets on up for failure. With stunning applications to skills as diverse as paying attention, CPR, investment analysis, psychotherapy, or playing a musical instrument, The Power of Mindful Learning is for all who are curious and intellectually adventurous.


Reviews

“A path to relief.… A fresh, thoughtful plea—notably free of ‘edubabble’ for exploring strategies of teaching and learning.”

—New York Times Book Review

“A source of great inspiration to me. With elegant simplicity she can completely change your life and transform your experience of reality.”

—Deepak Chopra, M.D.

“Opens the door to a lifetime of creativity.”

—Carole Gilligan, Harvard University

“Could radically change our concept of learning.”

—Jerome Bruner

“Like Freud, Piaget, Werner, and Vygotsky, Langer is well on her way to constructing a grand theory of human functioning with important implications for such diverse areas as education and learning, development and aging, group relations, and psycho- and neuro-pathology.”

—Edith Kaplan, Contemporary Psychology

 


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