The x-risk case for exercise
To have the most impact, the world needs you at your best
I often see people who stopped exercising because they felt like it didn’t matter compared to x-risks.
This is like saying that the best way to drive from New York to San Francisco is speeding and ignoring all the flashing warning lights in your car. Your car is going to break down before you get there.
Exercise improves your energy, creativity, focus, and cognitive functioning. It decreases burnout, depression, and anxiety.
It improves basically every good metric we’ve ever bothered to check. Humans were meant to move.
Also, if you really are a complete workaholic, you can double exercise with work. ;)
Some ways to do that:
Take calls while you walk, outside or on a treadmill
Set up a walking-desk. Just get a second hand one for ~$75 and strap a bookshelf onto it et voila! Walking-desk
Read work stuff on a stationary bike or convert it into audio with all the TTS software out there (I recommend Speechify for articles and PDFs and Evie for Epub)
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