Mindfulness – It’s a word that many people equate with meditation, but it actually is the simple process of noticing new things. Our guest, Dr. Ellen Langer, has conducted extensive research on the practice of mindfulness and insists that it can have enormous, profound effects. In this episode, she and host Bill Coppel -- Managing Director and Chief Client Growth Officer at First Clearing -- discuss how mindfulness leads us to be more engaged in whatever we’re doing, which can have great application to the financial services industry.

Dr. Ellen Langer is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard and has conducted extensive research on the illusion of control, mindful aging, stress, decision-making, and health. She is often called “the mother of mindfulness” and brings a wealth of insight to the topic.

Dr. Langer’s research on mindfulness demonstrates how we can find more enjoyment and engagement in our mundane, everyday behavior. She has found that the more mindful we are, the more we notice. And the more we notice, the more we connect. For financial advisors, this is a possible way to emerge triumphant over the current challenge of digitization, where the greatest value an advisor can offer is the value of connection.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

• The difference between mindfulness and intelligence
• How to change your behavior from being mindless to being mindful
• Why mindfulness changes the way you experience even the most mundane tasks
• How mindfulness can decrease stress and increase innovation
• What makes a mindful advisor better than a computer

Ways to contact Ellen:

• Website: ellenlanger.com
• Books: Mindfulness, The Power of Mindful Learning, Counterclockwise, Mindful Health and the Power of Possibilities, On Becoming an Artist, Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

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