The health benefits are very nice too if you’re just starting out. There are diminishing returns as your body gets used to it.
15 minutes in the morning/afternoon is my usually habit while at work. But on particularly tough days or just ones with nice weather I’d go for much longer walks.
It’s nice to explore the spaces around you when on these walks. You’ll end up discovering more of your surroundings than you’d ever expect. One nice benefit I’ve found is that I can do a 35ish minute walk to the movie theater I’d normally drive to. Doing this lets me just go see a movie on a whim, eat at one of the many restaurants near it. Maybe get a little drunk and be able to walk off a meal/buzz on the way back. I’ve had many epiphanies in this state of mind. You’ll just be a more relaxed individual if you adopted this.
But I started a habit of re-framing it instead like "well if you don't understand why people like something, that is your own failure to understand human behaviour and culture, if you were smarter you would understand why its popular"
That habit of re-framing stuff like that made me look at things a lot more like a neutral observer/anthropologist and not be such a hater
From there just got more and more into reading. For some reason I thought you could only read 1 book at a time but that's not true at all. I will have a few on the go at anytime. Just going to the library to sit and read is a nice break from everything. I have so many books I want to read now.
GoldenMonkey•2h ago
Stronger, leaner, fitter, healthier. Been doing this for years. It accumulates over time.
devrundown•1h ago