How to Walk (12 miles a day)
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How to Walk (12 miles a day)
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#2Look up the word flâneur (or flaneur if the accent is a problem).
Nessim Nicholas Taleb describes himself as one.
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#3Taking walks with friends or colleagues is a vastly underrated activity and leads to some great conversations.
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#4I've thought about incorporating such long walks into my lifestyle but I'm not certain the benefits add up. Definitely a fun idea though!
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#5I've thought about incorporating such long walks into my lifestyle but I'm not certain the benefits add up. Definitely a fun idea though!
Elaborate on 'I'm not certain the benefits add up'
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#6I'd love to have this freedom. As well as a nice cabin up in the Green Mountains of Vermont to explore. But 12mi a day, and you're basically a professional hiker for a living when you include prep time and post prandial hot tub soaks for recovery ;)
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#7I've thought about incorporating such long walks into my lifestyle but I'm not certain the benefits add up. Definitely a fun idea though!
Do you do any exercise at all?
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#8After walking to and from work for 5 years along the same route, I found that I prefer walking without listening to anything on headphones.
Just thinking increases awareness of my surroundings, allows me time to process existing thoughts as opposed to consuming more inputs, and connects me to the people I would inevitably see on a semi-regular basis.
Personally, I have found that 1 hour + is a good threshold to aim for for some really quality thinking. After about an hour I've already processed normal stuff about family or work and have moved on to deeper topics.
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#9I've thought about incorporating such long walks into my lifestyle but I'm not certain the benefits add up. Definitely a fun idea though!
Last year I used the CityStrides website to track and walk every street in my town. All told about 385 miles or so.
Some changes I've noticed since doing this are listed below. Not that they are earth shattering, but just a few things I've observed.
* My resting heart rate fell by about 5 BPM.
* I can now run and walk in my dreams and rarely have the "legs in molasses" thing (if you know what I mean).
* I now wear trail running shoes all the time - a total shift from the old Birkenstock and whatever shoes I wore for years before.
* My town has a number of fun, curious little sidewalk shortcuts between neighborhoods that I did not know about. They aren't secret, just not obvious at all.
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#10During my time as a producer at a game studio, the office was located in a little business park surrounded by grass and rivers and small lakes, with lots of wildlife and some hiking trails. We had a tradition of going out on walks every day before/after lunch, usually a couple loops around the park. I made a point of going every time because I found that lots of conversations would happen naturally during the walk and some of them helped me identify process issues that weren't being addressed or discussed yet - the sorts of things that people were afraid to complain about in meetings because it would make them seem like a whiner.