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every day.

Here's your success mentor, Daring Hardy.

Good morning, so how would you like to reverse your aging this morning so that you think

look, act, and feel younger?

If yes, then you're going to love today's Daring Daily.

In 1978, Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist conducted an important study.

She gave house plants to two groups of nursing home residents.

One group was told that they were responsible for keeping that plant alive and that they

had control over their daily schedule.

The other group was told that the staff would take care of their plant and that they were

not given choices regarding their daily schedule.

Well, after 18 months, twice as many people in the group given responsibility for their

plant and schedule were still alive as the other group.

Langer took this as evidence that current biomedical models, which views the mind and body

as separate, was wrong.

In 1981, she conducted another experiment to examine further the mind's impact on the

body.

She and a group of graduate students designed the interior of a building to reflect the

styles and conditions of the year 1959.

Scattered about where black and white, TVs, vintage furniture, magazines, and books from the

1950s.

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