The Power of Mindful Learning

Radical in its implications, this original and important work may change forever the views we hold about the nature of learning. In The Power of Mindful Learning, Ellen Langer uses her innovative theory of mindfulness, introduced in her influential earlier book to dramatically enhance the way we learn. In business, sports, laboratories, or at home, our learning is hobbled by certain antiquated and pervasive misconceptions. In this pithy, liberating, and delightful book she gives us a fresh, new view of learning in the broadest sense. Such familiar notions as delayed gratification, ”the basics”, or even ”right answers”, are all incapacitating myths which Langer explodes one by one. She replaces them with her concept of mindful or show more conditional learning which she demonstrates, with fascinating examples from her research, to be extraordinarily effective. show less

I most likely read this during Educational Psychology, and haven't touched it since, but I'm sure it has influenced me, because paging through it, I agree with all I read. Langer proposes that we be actively involved in our learning- that we make it fun and relevant so we want to learn it, rather than mearly forcing it on ourselves. I might just read this one again.