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The two mental shifts highly successful people make“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Max Planck, German quantum theorist and Nobel Prize winner
Updated July 20, 202218 min read
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Max Planck, German quantum theorist and Nobel Prize winner
In 1978, Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist performed an important study. She gave houseplants to two groups of nursing-home residents. One group was told they were responsible for keeping the plant alive and that they had autonomy in their daily schedule. The other group was told the staff would care for the plant and they were not given choices in their daily schedule.