Hi again Todd, I was looking for the original study you mentioned Ellen Langer did. I've heard it before -- I think from reading your book Curious, years ago when it came out -- but I can't find any published study. Do you have the reference please? Thank you!
So this is when it gets weird Michael. She never submitted it to a peer review journal. Same with her study on nostalgia and aging and several others. It’s from her book on mindfulness.
Ellen Langer is such a unique mind. So much of her research is wildly creative. Some of it still seems hard to believe for me. The hotel cleaners study, the counterclockwise study, the photocopy study, etc. What remarkable creativity and insight into human nature to even think of such experiments!
I loved this study too. I really frames mistakes in a powerful way. Thank you for reminding me of it Todd!
So glad you know so much of her work. Always under appreciated. One day I’ll tell about the day I interviewed with her out of grad school for a professor job at Harvard.
Didn't know about the kerchunk's origin, what a great story! That sound anticipates the guitar and I think makes the song. It's a somewhat somber song but with s lot of power. Anger, sadness. I guess that's the energy Radiohead taps into. They're not a favourite of mine, but I have much respect for Yorke and company.
Here's another short story about mistakes: For Chris Cross's song "Sailing", while recording and mixing it, the orchestral section was going to be in the end. The producer, Michael Omartian, somehow mistakenly put it while mixing at the beggining. And when him and Cross listened to it, magic! A hit was born.
(Source: Rick Beato's wonderful interview of Cross. Some real gems there, like he was allegedly the only guitar player that has ever replaced Richie Blackmore in Deep Purple in 1970.)
Hi again Todd, I was looking for the original study you mentioned Ellen Langer did. I've heard it before -- I think from reading your book Curious, years ago when it came out -- but I can't find any published study. Do you have the reference please? Thank you!
So this is when it gets weird Michael. She never submitted it to a peer review journal. Same with her study on nostalgia and aging and several others. It’s from her book on mindfulness.
The healthy skeptic in me winces.
Thank you Todd.
Ellen Langer is such a unique mind. So much of her research is wildly creative. Some of it still seems hard to believe for me. The hotel cleaners study, the counterclockwise study, the photocopy study, etc. What remarkable creativity and insight into human nature to even think of such experiments!
I loved this study too. I really frames mistakes in a powerful way. Thank you for reminding me of it Todd!
So glad you know so much of her work. Always under appreciated. One day I’ll tell about the day I interviewed with her out of grad school for a professor job at Harvard.
I’d love to hear that Todd. I wonder what she’s like as a person!
She’s such an original. Great mind. Great personality. That’s the short version.
Didn't know about the kerchunk's origin, what a great story! That sound anticipates the guitar and I think makes the song. It's a somewhat somber song but with s lot of power. Anger, sadness. I guess that's the energy Radiohead taps into. They're not a favourite of mine, but I have much respect for Yorke and company.
Here's another short story about mistakes: For Chris Cross's song "Sailing", while recording and mixing it, the orchestral section was going to be in the end. The producer, Michael Omartian, somehow mistakenly put it while mixing at the beggining. And when him and Cross listened to it, magic! A hit was born.
(Source: Rick Beato's wonderful interview of Cross. Some real gems there, like he was allegedly the only guitar player that has ever replaced Richie Blackmore in Deep Purple in 1970.)
Now that I wrote this I think about the beauty even more. Send a link to this other song. So interesting.
This is the part of the interview where they talk about the "mistake" while mixing Sailing: https://youtu.be/GA5KfNUp2fw?si=t1XPxWmC7H26vGG_
Also, here's the song. It went to win the Grammy as best song, best album and best new artist in the 80s: https://youtu.be/9PnXcP8ZI7M?si=UnNjFyGnLqtNfrdU