The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marxist and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Why these nine famous thinkers walked so much. A couple weeks back, I wrote about how integral walking is to being human. And over the years,

I've written about the health benefits of walking, how and why you should walk barefoot, and even a

definitive guide on the subject. In other words, I'm a huge proponent of walking, and I think just about

everyone who's able should do more of it. But I'm not

the only one who finds daily walks critical to health, energy, mental clarity, and ultimately,

at least in some part, my success as a human being. Many of the most accomplished and creative

people throughout history have also found walking to be an integral part of

their daily routines and key to their success as artists, creators, writers, musicians, thinkers,

and human beings. Let's look at how some of these folks used walking to improve their work.

Aristotle. Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher, empiricist, and pupil to Plato,

conducted his lectures while walking the grounds of his schools in Athens.

His followers, who quite literally followed him as he walked, were even known as the

peripatetics. Greek, for meandering

or walking about. Ah, to witness one of history's greatest minds utilizing the cognitive

benefits of moving while thinking must have been incredible. William Wordsworth, the poet with the most

fitting surname ever, walked nearly 175,000 miles throughout his life while maintaining a prolific writing career. He managed these two seemingly opposing habits for two reasons. First, being shorter, but not necessarily easier than novels, poems take less actual writing time to produce.

Second, Wordsworth's walking was writing in a way. As he saw it, the act of walking was indivisible

from the act of writing poetry. Both were rhythmic, both employed meter. He needed to walk in order to write.

Man, I feel like I'm in English lit class all over again.

Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens, author, social commentator, walker?

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