Living Well

The evidence establishes a clear minimum: each major muscle group must experience mechanical tension at least twice weekly to maintain tissue integrity.

Research establishes the minimum daily movement threshold at approximately 22 minutes of moderate activity. Falling below this floor accelerates mortality risk substantially, with sedentary behavio

Most guys will live and die without ever doing anything truly remarkable. They'll work jobs they tolerate, take vacations to places everyone's been, and fill their free time with Netflix and social media.

Look at the lives of men who defined what it means to be truly interesting:

Roosevelt hunted big game in Africa, survived being shot during a speec

While our ancestors risked starving or freezing to death, the risks we face today are psychological, not physiological. In a world where survival is all-but-guaranteed, your greatest risk is that you spend your life not really doing a whole lot of anything.

Environment matters a lot; move to where you flourish maximally. Put yourself in environments where you have to perform to your utmost; if you can get by being average, you probably will. (Greek saying: “A captain only shows during a storm.”)

A friend of mine lost the ability to form memories for a few days last week and it really hammered home that being in the present isn't all that great — it is the layering of the past onto the present that gives stuff meaning.

This makes me think: if having no memory robs the present of meaning, actively forming more memories should make life richer

Steinbeck on the one story:

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one... Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil... There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chip

In serving others one becomes great.

In fact, each single day of ours is a period given us by God, so that we may fill it with love for him, with love for those around us, with work well done, with putting the virtues into practice; in a word, a life full of good works pleasing to God’s eyes. Now is the time to amass the treasure that never perishes. For each one of us it is the accep

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.