Counter intuitive results from personal data
Unfortunately in society when we talk about fitness or getting fit, we often think of something like this:
The Authentic Eclectic
Why are teenage activists being given so much airtime?
So everyoneโs favourite little activist* was at it again last week. Yes, the great Greta Thunberg was again invited to a major summit to speak her usual vitriol around climate change to a sycophantic audience of fellow youngsters, blasting world leaders for not doing enough.
I suppose we shouldnโt beโฆ
And itโs crippling our ability to be happy
Itโs becoming clearer to me every year that due to the excesses of modern life, our ability to become a happy, healthy, fully actualised human being is going to depend on saying no to a lot of what is on offer in the 21st century. โฆ
People just like to believe theyโre true
Meetings are a waste of time
Except, theyโre really not. Are piss poor meetings with no agenda or goal a waste of time? Absolutely. โฆ
Itโs really not that difficult to work out
Hoo boy, Harry and Meghan are at it yet again, gadding about in public trying to look like the saviours the world needs, not that it deserves. Oh wait, thatโs Batman. Anyway, their recent public trip to New York has raised eyebrows and caused many a criticism from the mediaโฆ
Awakening from the delusion that work sucks
If thereโs one thing thatโs apparent to me, itโs that most of the Western world has fallen under a spell of sorts in regards to how we think about work. That spell can actually be summed up in a single word:
Exploitation
If you work for anyone except yourself, youโreโฆ
Debunking the myth that you have to love all the classics
I love classic literature. While many see it as stuffy, inaccessible and outdated, by diving in Iโve found some profound works of art that left a lasting impression on me. Thatโs not something that happened until Iโd matured a bit though, and I firmly believe that one of the greatโฆ
That have nothing to do with exercise
Iโve written previously that anyone who isnโt an athlete doesnโt need a fitness tracker and that they are generally a waste of money, because unless you have an athletic goal that youโre working towards, really all it does it tell you a bunch of information that you wonโt even useโฆ
Or risk treading water like everyone else
โDuring our conversations, his personal revelations had a tendency to shake me up โ not because of anything he said about me, but because his stories made me think of my ownโฆWhenever I made a discovery like that, I felt as though Andrew was holding up a mirror in frontโฆ
