I agree. Potato chips and a workout is better than nothing.
Also, for old people and others with painful feet, crosswalks can really suck. One who drives to the gym and then uses a treadmill gets to control their speed during the physical activity. The car can go fast enough to keep up with traffic without stressing the person’s body.
As someone who has been homeless, I hate that it is illegal to (a) sleep in one’s car and (b) sleep in one’s storage unit.
The lowest rungs of the economic ladder have been removed by government.
A job externalizes the motivation to keep moving. That matches our brains’ evolution. It’s easier to get out of bed every day for a job than it is for going to the gym and playing Just Dance.
Because a human who doesn’t move their body becomes miserable and unhealthy. Zero is not a good level of activity.
Men can’t reproduce. The fear of never getting a woman to love us is fucking scary to men because our feelings evolved around a total dependence on women to propagate our genes.
For a man, the relationship to a woman is just as valuable as his own body, in terms of viability of his genes. The types of fear we feel reflect this biological fact. We fear death yes, because death means our genes don’t reproduce. We also fear rejection for the same reason.
The main thing for me is to remember it’s not personal. When a stranger treats me as a potential threat, it is not an insult to my character.
Being treated as a threat by someone who knows my character, is an insult to my character.
But when a stranger models me as a stranger, it’s not personal at all. It’s not about me. Not a reflection of who I am.
I did zen training involving koans. At an abstract level, koans are a practice of trying repeatedly in the face of thousands of failures, without getting impatient. It’s the mental equivalent of Lucy’s punch-through-the-sign training in Kill Bill.
Try try try ten thousand years nonstop. That’s the mindset it takes to make progress with koans, and in the process break some of the mind’s longest-held assumptions.
Ever since I spent some years doing that, I love extremely hard video games. I don’t mind trying dozens or hundreds of times before I pass a level.