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99% of the time, the right time is right now. Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired mag
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👿 Exercise your demons. It feels almost unnecessary at this point to stress the point that exercise is a near cure-all: obesity, depression, anxiety, C19, bad mood. It's free and ~100% of the time has no negative side effects. On December 26, 1960, JFK penned a piece for Sports Illustrated, basically, on how Americans were getting mentally soft and physically weak and plump. Lol... that was in 1960. AND LOOK AT US NOW BABY! He talked about striving for the potential of the "whole man" and all sorts of stuff that gender goblins would barf at. Being fit will never be political, so stop. We've been better too: in the 50s/60s, La Sierra High School in Carmichael CA was known for the most rigorous PE program (yes, the class most associate with playing dodgeball and tetherball smh lol) in the country. This kids trained like Romans: "midgrade" athletes could complete 14 pull ups, 48 push ups, 7 minute mile(s), 15s rope climb to the ceiling, and so on. Sixteen year old freaks. Different time, different history, I know. But. Getting fat during peacetime is a correlative rule, but no rule is ironclad.
🧠 Old man advice. Kevin Kelly (from our quotation above) just turned 70 and has lived a pretty cool life; think Hemingway shit but w/ way fewer lovers. In celebration of his long life he published 103 bits of advice. It goes without saying that old men today were way cooler younger than young men are today: braver, tougher, told jokes, dressed like grown-ups, less neurosis. My favorites from his list: (a) Only work for who you want to become (b) Goofing off is highly underrated and (c) Write it down cos you won't remember it. Here's to the bald ones!
🦶🏻 Barefoot in the park. Take off your shoes (and "your bra if you like" rofl) in the grass, because it's good for you. The hippies in Park Slope call it "grounding," and it's great for sleep, reducing chronic pain and soreness, improving blood sugar, raising heart rate variability, improves mood, and makes you look like you probably read books. Homeless men in NYC summer have known this for years. Take notes!
🕊️ Tweet of the Day. A tripped-out neopet image to illustrate this point. There is no fixed reality (communists think the world is vile [need a capitalist's sense of optimism]; while capitalists think it's flawless [need a communist's sense of skepticism]) because your mind will dynamically paint the picture for you. Be generally positive, end meetings early, take the stairs, visit old libraries, have s3x in the back of a Model T.
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Andrew🍎
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