Don’t know that I’m a proven authority on the subject, but I try to take the usual advice — e.g. no TV in the bedroom, keep it cool(ish,) and go to bed more or less the same time each night.
PROMPT: Sleep
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PROMPT: 5,000 Steps
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Hit 5,000 steps today and drop your achievement here — we’re cheering you on!
No thanks. For a standard 7 in. rise step, that’s on the order of 300 floors. During the pandemic when I couldn’t go to the park or elsewhere for exercise, I used to do the five-story stairwell of the building I was living in five times. So, up 25 floors (even with the break of the walk downs in between) was quite a fine cardio workout. Granted, I did 2 steps at a time, but I wouldn’t need to 12X the total vertical height.
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PROMPT: Negative Thoughts
Feel the feelings but cut short the rumination with the realization that negative thoughts are waking dreams and have no more inherent reality than sleeping dreams.
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PROMPT: Love Now
Absurdity.
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PROMPT: Followed Your Gut
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What’s a time you followed your gut and it turned out to be exactly right?
I was hungry, so I ate some food, and I wasn’t hungry afterwards. It actually happens with regularity.
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PROMPT: Nominate
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Emperor Palpatine has announced open elections for a new Emperor — and he’s nominated Darth Vader. You get to nominate one challenger.
Let’s see. Someone fictional and from the future. I nominate Arthur Dent. #ArthurDentforEmperor
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PROMPT: Ridiculous
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What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?
That adults knew stuff and were free to do as they pleased.
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PROMPT: Changed
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What’s a piece of media (book, movie, song) that changed how you see the world?
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Also: Quiet by Susan Cain; Water Margin by Shī Nài’ān; and Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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PROMPT: Change the Ending
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If you could change the ending of any book, which one would it be?
Titus Andronicus. A bit over-the-top with the familial cannibalism and all. Just sayin’.
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PROMPT: Languages
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Which languages do you speak and how did that impact your life?
Fluently: English; With a substantial grasp of vocabulary and grammar: Chinese; Only polite words and basic phrases: Spanish, Hungarian, Thai, Japanese, and maybe still some Russian (which I took in Grad School — the worst possible language learning environment.)
Starting to read Chinese has been thrilling. It has opened a whole new world, and the nature of the language is so different that definitely rewires the brain a bit.
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