Cal Newport

All right, the final of these moderate intensity tier suggestions was learn a hard skill.

Just have something you're doing.

You have to do it every day, but have something you're doing that forces you to actually have to concentrate.

I'm trying to learn how to play the song on the guitar.

Like, I have to concentrate.

I'm trying to, you know, get better at hitting a softball for my softball team.

I'm going to go to the batting cages.

I have to concentrate.

I got to think, adjust, focus, you know, act, focus, adjust.

That's all just getting your brain going.

Again, this is going to be the physical equivalent of like, I'm going to play pickup basketball.

I'm going to play ultimate Frisbee with like the dads in the park.

It's like an activity that gets your body moving in a way that you otherwise wouldn't.

You need an activity that keeps your mind moving in ways that you otherwise might avoid.

All right.

So that's tier one, moderate intensity commitments.

You've heard those things before.

Let's move up to tier two, the serious intensity, right?

So if the first tier was the equivalent of having some reasonable health habits, like getting some steps and eating vegetables, the next most intense tier needs to be more like

going to a gym on a regular basis, right?