The Long Game 137: Health & Fitness Trends for 2023, Mental Illness Through Social Media, Choices, Chesterton’s Fe…
The Long Game 137: Health & Fitness Trends for 2023, Mental Illness Through Social Media, Choices, Chesterton’s Fence🔨 Find Out What You’re Good at and Pound Away at it Forever, Peer Review, Identity, Annul Review, Training Hard, Running at 200+lbs, and Much More!Hi there, it’s Mehdi Yacoubi, co-founder at Vital, and this is The Long Game Newsletter. To receive it in your inbox each week, subscribe here: In this episode, we explore:
Let’s dive in! 🥑 Health📈 Health and Fitness Trends of 2023I liked this article covering some of the significant health & fitness trends of 2023. Here are the trends:
Additionally, these are some other trends I personally think will become major in the years to come. Of course, my opinion is biased by what I’m interested in!
✨ Start 2023 the right way: Are you looking to get healthier, fitter, and feel better in 2023? Join us on Vital and share your health & fitness journey with the community. It’s been awesome to see users radically improve & step up their game as they interact with the other users. 🌱 Wellness😣 Mental illness — or rather, self-diagnosed mental illness — can spread via social mediaI found this paper very interesting and concerning.
Here are some more ideas from the paper:
Mental illness - or rather, self-diagnosed mental illness - can spread via social media. Adolescents, in particular, pick up symptoms and diagnoses from each other, adopting them as identities. doi.org/10.1016/j.comp… 🧠 Better Thinking⚖️ Choices, Calendar, Not Talking, ShowingIt might be a good time of the year to reshare the classic:
Open your calendar and imagine an outsider was looking at it. What would they say you’re about? If it’s not the obvious thing(s) you’re trying to do, then this might be something to address. One of the worst things that can happen is when you don’t realize your current life, habits, and choices won’t lead you to the life you want. Additionally, I think a lot of the debate around work, life, balance, and more comes from people having different goals (explicit or not in their minds) and also a clear (or unclear) understanding of what sacrifices will be needed to get there. ⚡️ Startup Stuff🔨 Find out what you’re good at and pound away at it foreverHere is a simple quote to start the year:
📚 What I Read🕳 Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order ThinkingThis is an idea I can’t stop thinking about. I see it happening in so many parts of society.
📉 The rise and fall of peer reviewWhy the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing:
Pair with: Research Hub The most important thing about science isn't peer review, it's independent replication. Peer review is just a crude substitute for that. ⚰️ Kill Your IdentityThe limitations of labels:
Pair with: Keep Your Identity Small 🍭 Brain Food📊 The Famous OkCupid ChartsWe covered multiple times the OKCupid charts on The Long Game. However, I saw this new and original analysis of them in the thread below, and I thought it was worth sharing, as it depicts a very different reason why this is happening. The basic premise is that women are simply more attractive than men. There is an implication in this very famous chart that I think many men miss - it is that women are simply more attractive than men. 🧵 This is another excellent thread if you’re looking for more online dating content. The data shows that men and women are not equally matched on dating apps. Men are much less likely to receive messages than women, even if they are just as attractive. This is because there are fewer women on dating apps, so the most attractive women receive a lot of messages. For men, being attractive does not mean they will receive a lot of messages. In fact, they have to send more messages to women to get attention. Are the top 20% of men showered with attention and are "Chads" poaching average women on dating apps?
What the OKCupid data show. 🧵 🎥 What I’m Watching🏃 The Best Advice For Heavier Runners (200lbs+)Great video for heavier runners. I gradually enjoyed running less & less as I got heavier, and this video gave me some ideas on how to program running as I’m getting close to 240 lbs. 🦾 How I Learned to Train Hard!🔧 The Tool of the Week🥇 The Ultimate Annual ReviewThis is the best template I found if you want to conduct an annual review for 2022 before setting up some resolutions and goals for 2023. 🪐 Quote I’m Pondering
— Dr. John E. Sarno 👋 EndNoteThanks for reading! If you like The Long Game, please share it on social media or forward this email to someone who might enjoy it. You can also “like” this newsletter by clicking the ❤️ just below, which helps me get visibility on Substack. Until next week, Mehdi Yacoubi |
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