Mark Berman

Or if you're walking,

you know, in June and there's so many mosquitoes that you're getting eaten alive and it's so uncomfortable, I don't think we would see the effects.

But I think as long as basic safety and comfort needs are met, you don't have to really love the nature interaction to get these cognitive benefits.

So you can go on a cloudy day.

You could go on a rainy day.

You can go on a cold day.

As long as your basic safety

safety and comfort needs are met, we think you can get these benefits.

No, unfortunately.

I think actually watching sports is not really softly fascinating.

That's a bit harshly fascinating.

And even when my team won, sometimes I would feel a bit irritated after watching.

Now, I still...

love to watch some of my favorite teams, but I don't do that as a rest.

That's not a rest.

And I think, unfortunately, there are many other things that we do in the modern world, maybe scrolling social media, looking at our news feed, surfing the internet that might feel like restful activities, but that actually may be depleting activities.

tv watching that's right i i can uh sympathize with those feelings i i know what that feels like and again i'm not saying that it's it's bad or that you want to avoid that at all costs just don't think of that as being a restful activity because it probably isn't

Yeah, there was an interesting study done by some researchers where they asked participants, how much do you think you would enjoy going for a walk in nature?

So they sort of had to forecast how much would they like the walk in nature.

And then they had another group of participants walk in nature.