Chris Duffy
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And so it's like you can go to the bathroom in these very structured times.
Yeah.
You're on your feet.
You are engaging with students.
You are teaching.
You're doing these things.
And then I switched to comedy and to being a writer.
And it's like incredibly unstructured.
Incredibly flexible.
And you might think that that would be easier to like get things done or to be more physically active.
And I found that it was actually the opposite.
Yeah, it was.
Having all the freedom in the world made it really hard to actually do anything in my day.
And it made it really hard to actually, you know, move or exercise or any of that.
I want to just read one paragraph from the conclusion of your book, because I think we've talked a lot about the practical and the day to day.
And I think that is really important.
That's a big part of movement.
But you also have changed the way that I think about it in kind of a broader sense, a bigger philosophical sense.
And so I just want to read this because I thought this was really beautifully put.
Beyond the science and statistics lies a subtler, more personal cost, the slow disconnection from our physical selves.