Waste is having a moment: The Pacific garbage patch. The turtle with the plastic straw stuck in its nose. Plastic bag bans. City compost sites. Last year, youyeah, every single one of usprobably generated 1,606 pounds of refuse. But waste isnt just about the garbage bin. Every day, we waste the plastic we consume, throw out our food, and maybe even squander our lives.
Tom Brady, noted underachiever that he is, aims to be in bed by 8:30 p.m. LeBron James plans his life around nabbing ten hours of shut-eye. Justin Verlander, the Cy Youngwinning Houston Astros ace, clocks between ten and 12 hours every night. (And he does it sleeping next to Kate Upton.) In the past few years, the worlds premier athletes have discovered a new performance-enhancing supplement for their training regimens: sleep.
It was a deadlift this time. There I was on the gym floor, half bent and looking like some sort of sick animal, afraid to stand up. Again. Last time it was moving a couch; before that it was reaching under a car seat; before that it was getting out of bed the wrong way. A familiar future unspooled before me: a week or two on the couch in cranky agony, a month of tenuous recovery, and, as with the approximately 80 percent of Americans who will suffer from back pain, a lifetime of knowing that ...
Steve Blanks oh-shit moment came during a Friday afternoon sales meeting. He had been dividing his time between two Silicon Valley tech jobs, one for a company outside Palo Alto serving the defense and intelligence communities, and the other for a microprocessor producer called Zilog. He was good at his work-necessary, even. He put in six or seven 16-hour days a week and accepted the crazy schedule.
Breathing is all the rage these days. Every week, it seems, a new study touts the benefits of a simple inhale and exhale. Do it right-slowly and mindfully-and it can be good for your nerves, your blood pressure, your memory. In other words, breathing is CBD oil, but cheaper.
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