Beth Lewis, Overlooked Variables, and Public Trust | Feeding Frenzy 41

Feeding Frenzy is a weekly post that is a collection of knowledge to absorb. Every week you can expect something worth listening, reading, watching, and pondering. Think of this as a boost of the signal above the noise! 

In this edition, we have a podcast with Beth Lewis on improving the movement. Worth reading, we have an article from The Atlantic on overlooked variables during the pandemic and an article from Forbes on slanting in Social Media regulation. Worth watching is Public Trust, a Patagonia documentary on the fight for America's public lands. And as always, a few more ideas worth your time!

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Worth Listening

Beth Lewis: The Art of Stability: Learning about pain, mitigating injury, and moving better through life | Peter Attia

"You have to be so reactive and it's so stressful when you're playing a sport that you're not learning anything. And for me, training is about learning. Paying attention and learning, and that learning will actually help you in your sport."

I've been looking forward to this conversation with Beth Lewis for some time. One of the ideas I enjoy from Peter is the Centenarian Olympics. At 100 years old, what is considered optimal movement? Once we have that, we can regress from there, expecting a certain amount of degradation. I'm currently 27, so I think of my current practice of keeping this body functioning well for as long as possible. Can I mitigate some amount of degradation in my 30s and 40s and so on?

Worth Reading

This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic | The Atlantic

"This highly skewed, imbalanced distribution means that an early run of bad luck with a few super-spreading events, or clusters, can produce dramatically different outcomes even for otherwise similar countries. Scientists looked globally at known early-introduction events, in which an infected person comes into a country, and found that in some places, such imported cases led to no deaths or known infections, while in others, they sparked sizable outbreaks."

I found this article interesting. One critical piece of insight is how quickly we research to create a heuristic in understanding complex situations. The unfortunate part is that this virus seems to deify our heuristic every time we attempt to assert one.

"It's not always the restrictiveness of the rules, but whether they target the right dangers."

 

Paddy Steinfort and the Craft of Mental Performance Coaching | Sports Illustrated

"If you turn up and you don't feel good, the scoreboard's still going to register what you do, not what you feel," Steinfort says. "The opponent doesn't care how you feel. The referee doesn't care how you feel. The fans who are paying money for it sure as s--- don't care how you feel."

 

We're Not Biased, We're Liberals: How Cultural Leftism Will Slant Social Media Regulation | Forbes

"While I may point out monolithic thinking, Congress needs to protect it. It needs to preserve the right to express newspeak and groupthink, whether it comes from the right or left, or from conventional or newfangled media. We are — or should be permitted to be— independent thinkers who not only can but have an obligation to sort it out. If we literally as beings cannot handle misinformation and propaganda, we shouldn't be voting in the first place. And that's preposterous."

 

Worth Watching

Public Trust Feature Film | The Fight for America's Public Lands | Patagonia

I found this documentary equal parts fascinating and infuriating. My main concern is that companies can have an enormous influence over the government and policy. In the United States, I believe one of the treasures in the land of this country. As a Midwesterner, I see a very different landscape than someone in California, Texas, or Florida. While I understand there are many millions of dollars in raw resources in the ground, we have to stewards this planet better. That comes at the cost of short terms gain or profit. I believe the government needs to tell corporate interest hands off because it can think in longer time scales.

 

Worth Pondering

"John - the Savage: But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Mustapha Mond: In fact, you're claiming the right to be unhappy.

The Savage: Alright then, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."

from Brave New World

 

This week is a wrap and plenty to chew over for this week! Feel free to let us know any thoughts and suggestions that may contribute to these posts. It may pop-up on Feeding Frenzy or develop into a full-fledged article of its own.

Stay curious, and have a great week!

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