Janice Kaplan
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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absolutely go out for a walk take a bike ride there's actually a lot of fascinating research that shows how much more creative we are when we're walking we tend to you know sit slouched over our computers all day trying to come up with good ideas and clever things and solve problems and if you actually get up and walk you're going to become much more creative.
There's a professor out of Stanford who did some research on this and she called her paper, give your ideas some legs. And the idea is that somehow the fluidity of body movement helps the fluidity of thinking.
And again, as you just suggested, I think when you're stuck on something or when you're feeling down, one of the things that happens is that you start digging yourself a deeper and deeper hole, and you don't see a way that you can get out. And if you have these little tricks, these little things that you know, this is gonna make a change for me, you can start to move forward again.
Yeah, we like to think of ourselves as being incredibly complicated, don't we? And we are our brains can do a lot of great things. And our bodies can do a lot of great things. But these very simple messages that are being sent between body and brain are pretty simple. And, you know, you can think of it that our brains basic role in life is to keep your body alive.
You can't solve huge mathematical problems unless you're here. So your brain is just very busy trying to figure out what your body needs and send out those right messages to it. And you're going to feel better.
there's something interesting on that also which is that so many people have gotten caught up with their apple watches and their various ways of of measuring things uh that they're doing people are out there with their we must do ten thousand steps which i think by now we all know is really there's no scientific basis for ten thousand steps at all and
A lot of the research now suggests that if you're a professional athlete, if you're really serious about the sports that you're doing, maybe you want to be measuring what you're doing.
But if you're a weekend athlete, if you're going out for a run or a walk or a bike ride to make yourself feel better, to get a little healthier, throw away the measuring devices because what they're doing is that they're giving you a goal to achieve rather than allowing you to enjoy the pleasure of the moment. So there is a great pleasure in taking a walk.
Maybe for some people there's a great pleasure in taking a run or a jog or a bike ride. But if you're very busy looking at how fast you're going and how well you're doing and how many steps have I achieved, you're losing that pleasure. So allow yourself to just indulge in the moment, enjoy the pleasures that you have, and the health benefits are going to come.
Thanks, Mike. It's been really fun and great to talk to you. I appreciate it.
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