According to Harvard professor Ellen Langer, when we live on autopilot, “we’re not there to know we’re not there”. Life happens, but we can often miss it.
Prof Langer, who has spent decades studying mindfulness, talks about the cost of mindlessness – the time we lose when we stop noticing our lives. We meet deadlines. We answer messages. We keep things ticking over. But there are days, sometimes weeks, where nothing quite stands out.
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