| Lately, I’ve been doubling down on walking. Walking isn’t just a form of active rest. It’s not only a way to get in low level aerobic movement, increase fat burning, lubricate my joints, stay active, and all that good stuff. It’s also become the most important part of my creative life. If I want to generate a new idea or write a rough draft, I go for a walk. And I’m doing far more than just thinking of ideas, coming home, and writing them down on paper. I’m actually using voice to text on my phone to get down a rough draft. I get a pretty decent rough draft simply by using my voice. And rough it is but then I come back, sit down (or use my standing desk), and clean it up. Clean up the grammar, iron out the concepts that I outlined, and just produce a finished work.
But the entire reason I’m able to do this is because walking isn’t taxing at all to me. I could walk indefinitely. As long as I’m not carrying a heavy load or walking up a steep incline, I can go forever. And I credit my ability to burn body fat—my fat adaptation, my metabolic flexibility—to what I’ve cultivated over the years. It is my claim that any healthy human should be able to walk and walk and walk for hours and have it be a creative endeavor rather than a struggle.
This is the kind of unforeseen benefit you get from eating right and training regularly. Most people who go into the gym and start trying to lose weight don’t do it because they want to improve the creative process. That never even enters their minds. But it’s a potent effect, and it’s not the only one. | 
