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I’ve been keeping up with my daily fitness + meditation routine (etc) for a long time, and almost every morning, I kind of chuckle to myself at this thought:
If you can structure your routine such that certain healthy behaviors are actually rewards that are preferable to other healthy behaviors (at least temporarily), you get a virtuous cycle.
When I lift heavy weights and don’t want to move on to the next set yet, I walk over to the bathroom and do my extensive teeth hygiene routine, which I’d otherwise dread.
(But by the way, it’s kind of miraculous, and I should write about it sometime if I haven’t already.)
Similarly, I know meditation is good for me, but I almost never spontaneously think “Know what I wanna do right now? Sit very still and quiet and pay attention to my mindbody.”
Except when my muscles are tired, and there are more exercises that I should do, but I want to procrastinate.
Boom. Problem solved.
Queue meditation.
Even better, there are even more comprehensive feedback loops:
And even that diagram only scratches the surface.
Your circle of influence and circle of control expand as you take better care of yourself.
Sometimes, the way I write makes it seem like I’ve achieved lasting peace and feel like “I have it all figured out”.
The opposite is true.
Being a human is often tortuous.
My partner Katie is used to hearing random groans (can I call it sighing?), whether I’m meditating or showering or whatever and end up encountering a heavy thought and release tension verbally.
But with these habits, I’m hoping I’m headed in the right direction.
Direction > speed.
🟢 A postal truck more beautiful than you’ve ever seen
🟢 If you were to read only SOME
🟢 The benefit of adult tantrums
Interviews like this help me stress less.
Either we’ll all be dead soon (or enslaved by AI), or a utopia is around the corner.
Our individual problems are quite small.
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