Counter intuitive results from personal data
Unfortunately in society when we talk about fitness or getting fit, we often think of something like this:
It will make all the difference to your chances of success
Just this week I wrote about how we should stop telling people to exercise and instead encourage them to do things that are fun instead. I stand by that notion and think itโs the best solution for the vast majority of people out there who donโt love exercise for its own sake. That said, many people want to jump in and give the gym, running, or something else that wouldnโt be considered โfunโ a try so they can improve their health and fitness.
The problem with this is that many people do the exact opposite of what they should: theyโฆ
The narrative is completely wrong
Hereโs a layup question for you: what do the new Star Wars trilogy, Ghostbusters, Terminator: Dark Fate and the latest reboot of He-Man have in common? The answer, of course, is that existing fans of those franchises hated them and made that hatred known loudly and clearly. Cue the complaining by those involved in the movies (usually the director) that the fans are bigoted, sexist and just canโt handle the fact that there are females in them.
Now, Iโm not even going to bother addressing those claims, because they are nothing more than a strawman to paint the fans asโฆ
Thereโs a far better way to get people active again
Iโve been an athlete since my parents first put me into swimming squads at the age of 10. Since then Iโve never had an issue staying in shape โ in fact, my issue was always training too much because I loved the sports I competed in to the point I could shut everything else out. Iโm now forty, and I still love trainingโฆ
Unfortunately, Covid changed all that.
All of a sudden, I couldnโt go out to the climbing gym, couldnโt coach my daughterโs judo class, and I couldnโt train at my local gym either. Training became a chore, becauseโฆ
Itโs probably much worse than you realize
One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness. One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the blink of an eye. โ Imagawa Sadayo
If I asked you how honest you are on a scale of 1โ10 right now, odds are youโd answer pretty high. You might be a little bit honest and admit that itโs not quite a ten, but thereโs no way youโll mark yourself on the lower end of the scale. If Iโฆ
And that it might be time to come back to normalcy
If thereโs one thing that the last four years of Trump, BLM and Covid has shown us, itโs that there are people pushing further and further to the extremes of the political divide every day. On an every day level, extremists pollute the political discourse and steer us away from sensible decisions that benefit the majority of society. That on its own is bad enough.
On an escalated level, itโs responsible for some of the worst crimes against humanity, because when youโre on the extreme, you can justify almost anything. โฆ
My big problem is with some of the snobbery around here lately
If thereโs one thing that I detest, itโs snobbery around what one consumes โ especially when it comes to writing. I see a lot of commenters around here lately talking about how basically everything is shit except what they like to read, as though theyโre the arbiters of all that is good when it comes to writing. One comment in particular that I seem to read (and I paraphrase) over and over again though, really epitomises this snobberyโฆ
Iโm tired of all the productivity bros around here
So first of all, this is Medium, itโs not The New Yorker. Theโฆ
Want to stop that? Hereโs how.
Weโve all heard the stories, weโve all read the articles. Amazon treats its workers appallingly, in what some would say is downright Dickensian for our time in history. Timed bathroom breaks, delivery standards that can barely be met, not to mention the practice of laying off lower tier workers every 3 years to ensure they donโt get too comfortable. Thatโs just at the bottom โ and while the upper echelons might be more comfortable in the physical sense, theyโre far more cutthroat.
Amazon move into a new town, swallow up all the workers, treat them like garbage and that becomesโฆ
Donโt believe the hype that messiness=genius
Thereโs been a myth out there for a while now that having a messy desk helps you be creative, that itโs even a sign of genius. Supposedly, a bunch of psychological studies bear this out as well, meaning that anyone that has a clean working space has no creativity and must be like Michael Douglasโs character in the movie Falling Down.
Queue all the lazy people with messy desks now thinking that theyโre somehow some kind of genius just because they canโt keep it tidy.
Look at this self-congratulatory asshat:
โSo if your work area, like mine, is usually aโฆ
So your employees donโt hate you for wasting their time & sanity
Tell me if this sounds familiar: you have a team meeting booked in your calendar that goes for 2โ3 hours. You walk into the meeting room and see a bunch of whiteboards with markers next to them. Brainstorming. Oh dear God. You stifle the urge to groan as loud as Homer Simpson when Lisa suggests a trip to the museum. โJust play the game and act like you want to be here,โ you think to yourself. Make it look like youโre contributing and really engaging in the process, even though itโs about as pleasant as a colonoscopy minus the anaesthetic.
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Pete Ross
๐ผ๐ช๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ง, ๐ค๐๐๐๐จ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ก ๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ง. ๐ผ๐ฉ๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐จ๐ค๐ก๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฃ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ค๐ช๐จ ๐ก๐๐๐.
