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Walking is Fitness

The Value Of A Quiet Walk

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever walk with nothing in your ears? During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about the value of walking without podcasts, audio books, or music.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made yourself,

0:07.0

and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain.

0:11.0

It is going to be a beautiful day here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

0:17.0

Temperatures, I think later this afternoon about normal for this time of year. Although,

0:23.2

as I'm out walking this morning, I don't know if this is normal or not. It actually feels

0:29.6

somewhat comfortable. I'm well-layered, but it's not one of these brutally cold mornings.

0:37.5

And as I'm walking, looking off to the east,

0:41.3

and I can see the first hints of sunrise.

0:45.0

So it's another early morning for me.

0:48.6

And it looks like it's going to be a beautiful sunrise.

0:53.2

There's a quote from Blaze Pascal. He was a philosopher,

1:00.0

not super familiar with who Blaise Pascal was and what he did, but this quote that I heard years ago has stuck with me.

1:11.6

He said, and I think I've got this right,

1:15.6

all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit in a quiet room alone.

1:23.6

Now you can ponder that and debate that, and I'm sure many have debated it.

1:30.3

Is it true? I mean, really all of humanity's problems?

1:35.3

All of them? What does it mean to sit in a quiet room alone?

1:42.3

And you can dig down and find flaws in that I'm sure but there's something about

1:49.7

that quote that resonates with me I think like so many others I don't like boredom I think at times

1:59.4

I even fear boredom I'll'll do whatever I can to not be bored,

2:05.6

to amuse myself, to be entertained so they don't feel bored.

2:11.6

The idea of sitting in a quiet room alone feels terrible.

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