10 Feb
The same way we know we tend to – and maybe should, maybe shouldn’t – separate work and life, we tend to put our everyday activities and our training time into different boxes. We separate when we should integrate.
12 Aug
One of the great things about running is that it’s part of our nature. Human beings are made to be, maybe even evolved as, runners. (If you’d rather just walk, not a problem. Driving is not our natural state of being, though.) When a baby makes its first steps, we notice that it’s a rather [...]
23 Jul
I recently went in for lactate testing, and it’s an object lesson in how “my” issues come together. After all, in all the talk about learning to be “at home” somewhere, in spite of all the obsession about health, fitness, diet, and looks, we somehow still manage to forget the very basics: we are always [...]
16 Jun
Moving, as the body you are, in the surroundings you are in, is one of the simplest things, and yet one of the most effective and manifold ways of really coming to live in this world. Depending on where you focus your attention, you learn more about yourself and your abilities – physical, mental, and [...]
Between "work" and "life," "humanity" and "nature," "us" and "them," we are ever more like tourists just visiting this world - and indeed this one life we have for sure.
High time we come to be at home.
…, Or: The Best Habit Is a Tool Convenience. It is our time’s great guideline. And it’s what makes us live ever more on this world, like tourists just visiting, rather than truly at home in this world. Even “lifehackers,” who seem the best example of people who still want to learn more when they [...]
“I’m not impressed.” It is easily the ugliest modern attitude that gets expressed by this phrase. As an attempt at coolness and aloofness that does not result in any of the freedom that a certain distance from the humdrum world could provide, it is nothing but proving that you are not really engaged in this [...]
The age of adventure, the era of explorers – it all seems a thing of the past. Now, the best you can do is action sports and extreme travel – but there’s a big difference: The earlier explorers didn’t quite know what they were getting themselves into, and went to the white spots on the [...]
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