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Good afternoon, 66.1ers.
A bit of a hot take incoming this week.
Been talking with a bunch of people lately who want to dial in their routines. Intermittent fasting, timing caffeine intake, making sure they get to the gym, eating the right stuff, etc.
That’s all well and good. But…
Is it maybe a bit overrated?
Or maybe a different way to put it: is it a symptom of a deeper problem rather than a solution to a problem?
Andrew Hubermann says you should get the sun (or whatever other bright light you can access) in your eyes ASAP every morning.
Also says you should wait until 90 minutes after waking to drink your first cup of coffee.
Other experts say you should practice intermittent fasting, meaning you eat only in an 8-hour window every day.
But are we perhaps missing the root cause that’s damaging our health and causing us to lean on tips and tricks to feel like we’re in control of our health?
I don’t have a PhD. I’m not a medical doctor. I’m a health coach. That means my job is to make healthy habits as simple as possible. With that in mind, may I ask these few counter-optimization questions to spur your thinking in a new direction?
Would it really matter exactly when you drank your coffee if you got 8+ hours of sleep every night?
If you spent 90+ minutes every day outside, would you need to go out of your way to find the sun to start your day?
If you ate only when you were hungry, would “intermittent fasting” be necessary?
How about this: if your default was to walk, stand, squat, run, etc. instead of sitting in a chair, would you need ibuprofen and physical therapy?
Want to talk through more stuff like this? Grab a time this week.
You might see where I’m headed with this: from my vantage point, there’s a certain irony to Dr. Huberman’s tricks and best practices. If we were all well-rested and spending a bunch of time outdoors every day, we wouldn’t need these practices. He shares all these optimization routines that lead to a sort of analysis paralysis because, well, it’s easier to just wake up, grab coffee first thing, and run out the door. Then there’s the issue that business happens behind a computer screen. Being well-rested and exposed to the outdoors is hard to do. I talked to someone recently who is afraid of moving to remote work because she “doesn’t want to spend all day, every day looking at a computer.” Touché.
With life (and earning) happening behind a screen more every day, health is an uphill battle. So, how do we build a life that doesn’t require specific timing for a particular beverage? A life that’s more intuitive, less regimented? One where we’re listening to our bodies, rather than following abstract routines?
Here’s my best effort at answering these questions, informed by the 2+ years I lived off-grid in rural Zambia as a Peace Corps Volunteer:
Put your phone down!
The irony of the infinite information available through your smartphone is that it dulls your senses. Social media makes you depressed because it prompts your brain to play a never-ending game of comparison. And of course you’re not going to measure up to the influencers out there! They’re living life by a different standard than you are. Everything they do is optimized for social media. That’s fine. Good for them. Let them. If you actually want that for yourself, go ahead and start living that way and posting on social. If not, save your social media time for 1x/month to catch up with friends. If they really matter, you’ll find out through text or phone call, no? Or maybe I’m showing my age? Either way, “hang up and hang out” is always good advice.
Let go
Enabling every notification on your phone, constantly listening to podcasts, etc. are all symptoms of an effort to increase your level of awareness. Increased awareness makes you feel safer. But that feeling of safety doesn’t last. Pretty soon you’re getting all worked up because Mongolia made some changes to its labor laws and you don’t think that’s how it should be. From what I’ve seen in friends and clients, those people who are most “informed” are often the most anxious. And the challenge is that this is a self-perpetuating cycle in which having more information causes you to want even more information, and when you don’t have that information, you get more anxious. You’ve got to break the cycle. Stop worrying about Mongolian labor laws. Go help your neighbor shovel her driveway.
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