I live in the EU and have a heat pump clothes dryer. It takes a little longer than hot air, but it doesn't heat up as much and destroy clothes. It also doesn't take special voltage/plug. Any regular plug will work. All it needs is a drain - no waste heat vent required. Oh, and it's super quiet.
You reminded me that I had a person at work get mad that I used the phrase “9 women can’t have a baby in 1 month”. They couldn’t explain why other than I’m a man and can’t talk about women. So it’s not wild Twitter takes.
That’s the exact conversation. We were talking about speeding up a development process and I used the classic saying in the context that some things just take time. It shook me a bit because I don’t want to make anyone feel uncomfortable, but me and the other people in the room sat there at a loss with what the issue was. She also couldn’t explain other than saying woman is bad, which showed she didn’t take the time to even try to understand what it meant.
She was eventually fired in part for yelling at a guy in a huge meeting when he answered a question about to a hypothetical boss as “he” instead of she or they.
So I understand your skepticism and would also be a skeptic if I didn’t live it.
It's not about motivation, it's about discipline. Motivation is fleeting, and if someone only exercises when motivated it's going to be hard to keep going. Discipline is what will get a person to exercise enough that it becomes part of their life. But to your point, discipline is not that common.
I've done some sort of workout almost every day for the last 25+ years. It had nothing to do with motivation, but making exercise a part of my day like brushing my teeth.
> It had nothing to do with motivation, but making exercise a part of my day like brushing my teeth.
So it isn't about discipline either, it's about habits?
I'm like you. Routine exercise for the last 25 years or so. I feel neither particularly disciplined nor particularly motivated. It is either just a habit I've formed or I happen to have the correct physiological temperament for exercise to be easy.
You could say that. Discipline is how the habit is created and kept. The first thing I tell people is that exercise isn't easy. It's not supposed to be. Outside of all the health benefits, one of the biggest benefits of exercise is the mental growth of learning to accept being uncomfortable.
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I'll also add that most people who are disciplined don't really think about it that way. They just do what they need to do.
> one of the biggest benefits of exercise is the mental growth of learning to accept being uncomfortable.
I claim the same about hunger (within bounds of moderation etc etc). It's simply uncomfortable, but it's a discomfort that you can adapt to and live with. My general view is that both hunger and exercise work as ways to moderate weight but they rely on the exact same capacity for discomfort (and enduring that requires either necessity or motivation/discipline etc)
Out of interest, how long did it take for you to form the habit for regular exercise?
I took a solid 6 months of forcing myself to ignore my mind's constant excuses to not work out, to the point of my mind realizing that the excuses just weren't going to work and stop.
I don't know. It happened in college when I got involved in an organized, highly athletic, sport. Never stopped. I guess six months wouldn't be a bad number to put on it.
Exercise feels good to me. I think it felt good immediately when I started? I like the feeling of pushing myself and I kind of like discomfort/pain I can control.
I don't like running, but I continue to run a 10km course a few times a week. Some years ago I felt the transition from someone who just runs for exercise to being a runner. And runners run. So I run.
As I said, motivation is fleeting. It's what gets you to take the first step. Discipline keeps you walking until it becomes a habit.
It's not much different from starting a business or making a piece of software. Motivation kicks things off because it's fun, but it goes away and now you have to have the discipline to keep going. When people talk about execution is everything, they aren't talking about day 1, they are talking about day 100, day 365, day 720.
Probably need to define. Are we talking about professional athletes or just people who have a lot of training experience?
Exercising hard for a person who has never trained is very different than someone with years under their belt training. An untrained person can't even tap into what hard means compared to a trained person.
I'm also confused about the focus on endurance. Yes, all people need some cardio, but everyone would do better with additional strength. The stronger someone is going into their 50s, they better they will end up in the 60s and 70s.
To all the other currencies that are currently used as reserve currencies, other than the US dollar. There has never been a single reserve currency in the world.
It doesn't matter who/what gets it next, what's important is that we're about to take a 60-80% haircut on our standard of living. It's what happened to the British when the lost it with the Pound Sterling, and now it's our turn.
Most people don't remember what hard money is, and why it's important.[1]
* The value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies dropped about 11% in the first half of this year, the biggest decline in more than 50 years, ending a 15-year bull cycle.
* Morgan Stanley Research estimates the U.S. currency could lose another 10% by the end of 2026.
* Despite a recovery of 3.2% in July, the delayed impact of tariffs on growth and unemployment – besides policy uncertainties – are likely to keep negative pressure on the dollar.
* Foreign investors have been adding hedges to their exposure to U.S. assets, which will likely further weaken the dollar.
The problem with talking and arguing is that many people push/flood the discussion with low-quality arguments. This puts it back on the person trying have a good discussion to keep correcting or defending.
A public example of this is Trump who just overwhelms any discussion with bullshit. It's impossible to have a conversation where anyone learns something.
Writing lets all participants operate at their own pace, and the type of person who tries to overwhelm a discussion with bullshit often doesn't write very much.
No, it's metric. Our schools are flooded with 30cm rulers. You'll see kids as young as 8 with 330ml drinks. Some even count in decimal - there is no end in sight
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