Dan Buettner

to harvest and to hoe and to water and to weed.

And we vastly under-celebrate the value of these.

First of all, almost all these activities are enjoyable.

Secondly, they're mindless.

They're just kind of baked into the daily.

Thirdly, collectively, they burn way more calories than spending a half hour, an hour in a gym.

over the course of the day that just adds up over the hours of constant movement.

And the fourth and arguably the most important insight is that when you're keeping your body moving all day long,

your metabolism is burning hotter.

So you're burning more calories even when you're not, so to speak, working out or exercising.

So the caloric burn is much higher.

It's much easier on your body.

You're less likely to get injured.

But most importantly, if you look at the data of gym memberships, you start with 100 people on January 1st.

You lose about 80% of them by September.

at least to regular.

So gym memberships, great business model.

They don't pay off.

On the other hand, and I'm like you, I do go to the gym.

Why?