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Dr. Langer’ earlier books, Mindfulness (1989) and The Power of Mindful Learning (1997), focus on the importance of mindfulness, paying attention to life itself, to function at optimal levels. She suggests that we make too many choices on “autopilot” without thinking about what choices we are making.
Counter Clockwise study Dr. Langer and her colleagues r…