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SO well said. Thanks for sharing parts of your life with us. I too had an awakening 19 years ago and moved from the east coast to the pacific northwest. Friends and family said, "Are you crazy? Oregon...it rains all the time". I learned from local, new friends here to say, yes, you're right, it rains all the time. They encouraged me to discourage people from moving to our little piece of heaven, Hood River. I'm still trying to come to terms with family and friends who don't get me. I've come to accept that is their loss for the most part. My daughter is estranged from me because I told her that I can no longer take the pain she causes me in the way she treats me and that the only solution was to get into therapy together. She can choose the therapist but we needed help. She freaked out and hasn't spoken to me since. My only child. It still hurts beyond measure but I won't allow myself to be hurt like that again...even from the person that I love the most in this world. You can't create and carry a human being in your body for 9 months and not have an inherent connection to them.

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Excellent post. I will echo what you said about weight training — it’s the closest thing to a fountain of youth that exists. Everyone needs to get a copy of Starting Strength, build their garage gym, find a coach, and get cracking. If we want to be healthy and vigorous in our later years, we must be strong.

I think we should also consider out intellectual lives. Most people give up trying to learn things as soon as the leave the structured school environment. If we don’t continue to exercise our brains, we will only hasten our decline. Let’s put down the phone and pick up a book!

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by Data Humanist

I would go so far as to say the likelihood that you're able to make the world a better place or be as productive as you can be while your health is in shambles is pretty low. I think there is an illusion that this isn't the case, and I think this illusion is fueled by a fiat monetary system that divorces compensation from productivity, especially for those of us that operate within large institutions. I argue that as a rule, unhealthy people are incompetent. Building health and improving competence are synonymous as far as I can tell. You might not make as much money now, but I bet you're more productive in real terms.

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by Data Humanist

Beautifully stated, Data Humanist! It looks like we've both read Your Money or Your Life and The Barbell Prescription. If just a few financially, emotionally, and physically bloated folks would heed your advice, we'd be well along the road to a saner world. Unfortunately, pruning the dead wood out of one's life takes work, and it's just so easy to pop a pill, grab a hot pocket, and zone out.

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Great post! One of your best. ^_^ Thank you!

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