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The Philosopher's Life Hack: Go Take A Walk

What do Aristotle, Nietzsche, Tesla, Beethoven, Charles Dickens, and Steve Jobs have in common? They all understood the power of going on a walk.

By Paula Gallagher5 min read
The Philosopher's Life Hack: Go Take A Walk

In the late 1870s, the most popular spectator sport in America was pedestrianism, or endurance walking. Thousands of people would pay admission to watch men and women walkers circle a one-sixth mile track in the original Madison Square Garden in New York — for days at a time.