Ease, Difficulty, and Fitness
Episode description
Most of our life, technology, and progress is centered around the idea of making life easier.
Think about things like Door Dash, sleeping pills, and self-driving cars.
But a central question that comes up is: Is an easier life necessarily a better life?
It seems that as humans we're hard-wired to need some difficulty, challenge, or struggle to live a full and meaningful life.
In this episode James and Robby discuss the extent to which ease and difficulty play a role in fitness and our lives in general. They ask and attempt to answer questions like:
-In a world where things have become so "easy" that it's actually "difficult" to lead a healthy life, how do we get back to healthy living?
-Even if we wanted to we can't mimic the struggles of the past, so what we should do in the modern world to have some difficulty or challenge?
-Should the purpose of fitness be to "rake ourselves over the coals" so to speak on a daily basis with overwhelming challenges?
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