Mindfulness 25th anniversary edition

Ellen Langer is a psychologist from Harvard University who has spent much of her career researching the differences between mindfulness and mindlessness. In Langer's view, mindfulness is the ability to create new categories, welcoming new information, openness to different points of view, control ov......more

The main gist of this book is that it's better to be aware of what you're doing and avoid the automatic categorizing of situations and people that your mind naturally does when making decisions for yourself or when dealing with others. There are also sections on learned helplessness, especially in t......more

I found the introduction quite promising as the author explains how we could get more from our lives if we look at things from different perspectives and all. But I lost interest as it became too repetitive and felt more like a Psychology conference's brochure of abstracts. Two hundred pages could b......more

Mindful..wha? In my ever continuing quest to become sane (some dreams die hard), I thought I'd pick up this little psychology/self-help book that is supposed to help one undertand the importance of being present and mindful. Yawn (Sorry, Buddha). Admittedly, there were a few interesting anecdotes, an......more

Mindfulness was a super-interesting read. Author Ellen J. Langeris the author of more than two hundred research articles and eleven books, including this one, which became an international bestseller and has been translated into fifteen languages. She is known as "the mother of positive psychology"......more