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You can learn. It takes some rewiring to stop mindlessly slamming the heels into the ground but it is accessible. We are very adaptable creatures. Gait has a staggering amount of variations on flat concrete as well as any uneven surface & they are all accessible to you if you want or care. Move between different gaits. The variety is what protects from over use injury. It feels like cheating at being a human body at some point. It’s completely & utterly shocking the transformation possible. I used to be so crippled some days would consist of laying flat on my back on the floor in my appartement cause the pain wouldn’t allow me to sit, stand or walk. My feet are close to an inch wider than they were. Nervous system control of the toes is off the charts and the ground reactive forces control trickled up the kinetic chain into global improvements over time that I could have never imagined before. It’s the difference between comfort & life-giving movement-intelligence.

When is the last time you walked a mile in the forest barefoot? You might realize that you can’t actually do it. Nature isn’t as soft as you guys make it out to be. If you actually lived like you were « designed »(your language) for, you would become so strong that asphalt wouldn’t terrify you. Then what were you designed for? That’s an open investigation.

What do you mean? My knees allow full lunge matrix 360 degrees, jumping and sprinting on any surface any time without pain. It feels fantastic actually. Oh and effortless resting squat with any kind of distance between the knees.

Good for you, I’ve never been.

They aren’t five fingers by the way. The fact you don’t even know what barefoot footwear looks like says a lot.

You don’t need to wear them and you can think I’m weird all you want. Don’t spread misinformation though.

Well come tell that to my knees lol. I have been barefoot(on pavement most of the time) exclusively for 3 years & my whole body feels 10 times better than it did before. There is a period of adaptation cause you have to actually learn how to walk for the first time & that creates some cognitive dissonance.

It’s got nothing to do with the pavement & everything to do with how you use your feet.

How does a guy see a woman long enough to get engaged & not notice she’s not into him? He’s seriously lacking social awareness.

Then use your time to train. The good jobs are the ones you have to create and you cannot do that from a position of lacking skill. Businesses aren’t schools.

You could aim for cashier or something similar. You could chat up everyone that goes through, build social skills in that way, then maybe move up to server or the likes, etc, etc.

Yeah most people aren’t happy with their job. What you are trying to do is uncommon and there’s a cost. The cost is training, there really isn’t anyway around that. I don’t know what is right for you but my first few jobs were definitely miserable too. All successful people I know had to suck it up at some point to bootstrap themselves. You are still young, it’ll get better but you have to build experience in basically anything & expand from there. Leaving a job after 2 days because you don’t like it says a lot about your character to potential employers. Don’t even mention it to them. Don’t put that on your resume. Pretty much every employer will ask some variation of these from you: -Take responsibility & be proactive. -Admit mistakes, ask questions & ability to learn. -Be on time. -Good attitude. In musician circles we call that being a good hang. That’s very underrated. Even with no skills you can just be a positive presence around others. They like it & you will too. That gets your foot in the door.

It’s the other way around. You need to develop skills to get a good job. You will have to do like the rest of us did and suck it up with a low level job until you can provide value. Ironically(cause you hated & left), call centre builds low level social interaction skills you could leverage to move into sales & then work your way up. How long did you work there? Maybe you could still leverage that if you’ve learned anything from it.

I live in Montréal. There’s a big mountain in the middle of the city. I don’t have a schedule, I go whenever I feel like it. I would like to see other spots sometimes but I am too busy to leave the city at the moment.

Movement. My practice includes: -Walking, running, sprinting, rucking & hiking. -Flexibility, mobility & stretching -Calisthenics, handstands, hanging, squats, etc. -Dancing, rope, kettlebell & stick flows -Sandbag training -Myofascial release. -Skiing

I will never go back. In my top 5 decisions of the decade so far.

Can you have it in front of you and be free to either take it or not? If you abstain you aren’t free. If you indulge you aren’t free either. You make the decision. My mom never tried weed in her life but has the worst relationship with it in my direct circles. The stories you tell yourself matter. Well actually they don’t but you get what I mean.

You guys are coping😂

😅chairs are to sitting what donuts are to eating.

Culture has been crippling our physical coherence since kindergarten by sitting us on chairs all day. It’s pure crap & makes us so weak we can’t even imagine basic human functioning anymore. Sitting on the floor is better for your health in every conceivable way if you can stomach the fact it’s going to take literal years to fix the damage caused by decades of conformity. This goes way beyond yoga or meditation practice. It’s your entire life. I agree that lotus is not good. Sitting cross legged doesn’t mean lotus or even half lotus. Your legs shouldn’t be on top of each other.

Where do you get brain? I never seen this at any market. Do you order it?

The only reason it hurts when cross legged is that you never do it. People even loose basic functions like squatting by not doing them. From thousands of hours doing chair & floor, there’s 0% chance I go back to chair. Leo is not a model of physical coherence and he is wrong about this one. Chairs make your hips weaker & when you get weak enough you think it’s the only option. Chairs is conformist non sense. Not the other way around. Meditating on it doesn’t make it original lol. Low stool where you can assume a kinda of squat but seated is also leagues above chairs.

Chair sitting is ass. The floor is better.

I eat similar to this. Love the fermented stuff like kimchi, miso, yogurt, etc.

I like odd numbers. The measure resolves on a different foot every time the breath changes direction, it’s quite soothing. It makes sense to me to try to equalize both sides. 5 for low intensity & 3 for more involved pace. 7 is quite mechanically beautiful even though it’s too slow to really get any cardio work.