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 everyoneβs 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 shouldnβt beβ¦
And itβs crippling our ability to be happy
Itβs 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. β¦
People just like to believe theyβre true
Meetings are a waste of time
Except, theyβre really not. Are piss poor meetings with no agenda or goal a waste of time? Absolutely. β¦
Itβs 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, thatβs Batman. Anyway, their recent public trip to New York has raised eyebrows and caused many a criticism from the mediaβ¦
Awakening from the delusion that work sucks
If thereβs one thing thatβs apparent to me, itβs 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, youβreβ¦
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 While many see it as stuffy, inaccessible and outdated, by diving in Iβve found some profound works of art that left a lasting impression on me. Thatβs not something that happened until Iβd matured a bit though, and I firmly believe that one of the greatβ¦
That have nothing to do with exercise
Iβve written previously that anyone who isnβt an athlete doesnβt need a fitness tracker and that they are generally a waste of money, because unless you have an athletic goal that youβre working towards, really all it does it tell you a bunch of information that you wonβt even useβ¦
Or risk treading water like everyone else
βDuring our conversations, his personal revelations had a tendency to shake me up β not because of anything he said about me, but because his stories made me think of my ownβ¦Whenever I made a discovery like that, I felt as though Andrew was holding up a mirror in frontβ¦
