On Discipline, Intelligence, and Stoicism: It's Tough to Be Smart, but Smart to Be Tough Must Triumph | Sam Yang It's tempting to believe intelligence trumps everything else. "If only I were a genius," becomes a de facto magic answer that leads to everything we've ever wanted. If we don't get the things we want, it's either an effect of not being smart enough or because other people have advantages we don't: rich parents and/ or they were extremely lucky. Though there's nothing magical about effort and working hard. It's actually a lot of work. Read More Build the Ultimate Garage Gym from Gear You Already Own Outside | Ted Spiker One of the oddest items I ever used as...
The 10 Physical Skills Every Man Should Master The Art of Manliness | Brett & Kate McKay Now that you’re a grown man, you probably don’t think all that much about the different ways you can move your body (unless it’s to note how much more painful some of them feel these days). After all, you’ve been doing such thoroughly simple things like running and jumping for decades now, and they feel completely instinctual. You don’t have to think much about basic physical movements anymore.ce. That’s the common line of thinking, at least. But it’s a wrong-headed and detrimental perspective. That which we believe is “basic” turns out to have layers of complexity we simply haven’t discovered yet. And while...
Done after dark, on a uniquely challenging course along the cobblestone streets of its namesake Brooklyn neighborhood, The Redhook Crit held it’s 10th annual race day. The first bike race was for a few dozen fixed-geared riders to celebrate founder David Trimble’s 26th birthday, but today it’s a high-octane charge around Red Hook by some of the best racers in the game. Six years ago the organizers added a 5K run as a warm up to the main biking event, but that too has become an almost gladiatorial spectacle of the world’s best run clubs, from Black Roses NYC to the West Side Runners and more. Both the run and the bike race are famously competitive, with huge, cheerleading crowds...
Boost Your Workouts With Caffeine, Even if You Chug Coffee Daily The New York Times | Gretchen Reynolds Caffeine improves athletic performance. This is a truth almost universally acknowledged in exercise science. But scientists, coaches and athletes also have thought that to gain any performance boost from taking caffeine before an event, an athlete had to abstain from the stuff for days or weeks before a big event. A new study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology intimates, however, that these ideas about caffeine and performance are out of date and that someone can swill coffee every day and still get a caffeine performance buzz when needed. Read More How to Maintain, Or Even Improve, Your Memory As You...
Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too Nautilus | Alex Soojung-Kim Pang When you examine the lives of history’s most creative figures, you are immediately confronted with a paradox: They organize their lives around their work, but not their days. Figures as different as Charles Dickens, Henri Poincaré, and Ingmar Bergman, working in disparate fields in different times, all shared a passion for their work, a terrific ambition to succeed, and an almost superhuman capacity to focus. Yet when you look closely at their daily lives, they only spent a few hours a day doing what we would recognize as their most important work. The rest of the time, they were hiking mountains, taking naps, going on walks...
