John Burn-Murdoch

So it's the individualization of everything.

It's about setting those personal bests, which is a wonderful thing.

Self-improvement is a wonderful thing.

Right, exactly.

Yeah, exactly.

These can all be good things, but it's significant, as you say, the shift.

from doing something that is more casual and social, like playing soccer, or, you know, I'm sure, well, basketball, I was reaching there for a US sport, the switch from that to running or lifting weights.

So yeah, I think that's super interesting.

And yeah, I also think it's interesting how much of the wellness conversation often doesn't even talk about physical fitness.

it is often that the self-care, the sort of therapy speak, that kind of thing, rather than saying, like, get out and go play ball with your mates.

All right, I would even say both.

As in, sure, specifically, it doesn't tend to be emphasizing go do your team sport.

It's more about personal improvement.

But I think often a huge amount of wellness is not even about the physical at all.

It's the focus on the mental, which as you've shown in your reporting,

ignoring or at least de-emphasizing the physical when we know how dramatic the positive impacts of that can be, I think is quite striking.

Yeah, I mean, that's exactly the framing I've been thinking about as well.

So I saw someone, I think, talking about how GPT, LLMs in general could be like, you could have this Socratic dialogue where you're constantly being pushed and guided through the topic, the academic topic that you're working on.

you're the boundaries of your knowledge are constantly being pushed and you've you've got this sort of it it's like you know like a strenuous workout for your brain um where you're with a personal trainer that you're really being pushed to do your best and i can totally you can instantly see the types of people either of their own volitional because of being pushed in that direction by their parents who would end up using llms like that

And then at the other end of the spectrum, and I think this is probably a much larger slice of the population, you've got people who were asked to write an essay about the book that they supposedly read, but they haven't because they were distracted by TikTok.