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Mental Fitness

Invest in the practice of creating and retelling better stories.

Mental fitness should be treated like physical strength. Establish support systems to replace vicious circles with virtuous ones. Physical activity is fundamental for maintaining mental health and warding-off risk factors - Exercise and Mental Health

Practices​

Context​

Problems​

Concussion​

Questions​

What is the most important question you could ask yourself to make progress?

  • Physical activity is described as fundamental for mental health — at what point does the exercise-as-medicine framing replace the story-retelling framing as the primary driver of mental fitness?
  • Concussion is listed alongside depression and loneliness as a problem — how does the Norm Maxwell case signal that sport culture creates the very mental health risks this page aims to address?
  • The vagus nerve is linked as a key mechanism — how does temperature regulation (listed under Practices) connect to vagal tone and the replacement of vicious circles with virtuous ones?