I read an article in the New York Times this evening summarizing a position paper by a physiologist arguing that reticence about exercising in cold weather is largely a product of 1) misconceptions about the safety of exercising in the cold and 2) inappropriate dress–driven by misunderstanding the nature of our physiological response to cold–for [...]
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Constrained by our own myth-conceptions
Posted in productivity, tagged cold, exercise, faith, goals, mindfulness, writing on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Running away
Posted in productivity, scholarship, writing on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading in the book Professors as Writers the other day about the reasons professors have a hard time writing diligently and productively. Robert Boice, the author, outlines a number of reasons based on years of research and consulting, and you can read the book for the specifics. As I see it, a lot [...]
