Creativity Lab Report #10: Rejoin, rejoice and exercise
We'll start this report with a few reminders and end with a love letter to running!
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We will announce our fabulous retail partners shortly, if you want to join our retailers fam and sell our cookbooks at your shop, please reach out!
Thinking of your loved ones, we also prepared a set of gift boxes with the incredble people from Giftii. Check them out here: The basics, In-Style and All-in
In our browser
We love reading! What we don't love is forgetting what we had previously read. Can you relate?
We recently met someone with a brilliant mind and a surprising ability to retain dates, names and facts. We know we don't have that gift, but we do our best to retain as much as possible by taking notes as we go, writing summaries and discussing the books we read with others.
Here is a list of some somewhat obvious tips to remember what you read. We may be slower readers, but what's the point in reading more if you won't remember any of it the next month?
On our bookshelf
Exercised by David Lieberman. Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding.
The book states that exercise today is defined as a voluntary physical activity undertaken for health and fitness. Our ancestors had to be physically active for hours to get enough food, build their communities, play, dance, and socialize. They never walked several miles just for health. We never evolved to exercise; we evolved to be active and efficient on our feet for evolutionary purposes.
The book explores the myths around exercise, unpacks questions around our physiology and studies our activity (or inactivity) through history. We personally tend to gravitate towards over-exercising, not only because of its physical rewards but because of its precious emotional and psychological benefits. In tune with that thought, we wrote a deeply personal letter to running!
In our minds
“To be a learner, you’ve got to be willing to be a fool.” – George Leonard.
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