Performance Intelligence

196 The Science of Mental Fitness: Why Movement is Non-Negotiable | Dr John Ratey

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A professor at Harvard and MIT wrecked his knee and stopped running the 7.5 miles he ran every night of his adult life. 5 months later he could not finish his own work. He was losing the thread in conversations, forgetting things he had never forgotten, and getting angry in a way he did not recognise. He was convinced he had developed adult ADD in middle age.

He hadn't. He had just stopped…