Pavel Durov

reasonably stress-resilient person.

I didn't panic at that moment.

And there were worse swims I had that were shorter but involved accidents and, you know, about some of them.

So that wasn't the worst by far.

But an important thing about swimming and physical activity in general is that it makes your mind clear and your thinking process is becoming more efficient.

Because at the end of the day, the efficiency of our brain is limited by how much sugar and oxygen our heart can push through blood to our brain.

How can you make this go faster?

Or how do you make your lungs more efficient?

How do you make your heart more efficient in doing that?

Physical activity is the only way I know of.

It's also being stress resilient.

All of these qualities are necessary if you want to run a large company, if you want to start a company.

I'm surprised when I started doing this more than 10 years ago that more CEOs didn't engage in sports.

The situation changed in the last several years, which is great because back in the day, if you take 20 years ago, there was this stereotype that if you're strong, you must be not very smart and vice versa, which is a complete lunacy.

Very often, these two things go together.

Oh, yes.

When I can't train, I can instantly feel that stress is creeping on me.

Yeah.

So even in situations when I'm constrained, I can't go to gym.

I would just keep doing push-ups.