India is so FUCKED UP man.
A college friend, who used to live next to me for a year,
GOT 57 Rank in GATE,
Was about to join BARC,
But lost his life yesterday because he was giving a treat to his friends in a canteen where the building fell and a concrete slab hit his head.
CBI Officers: 5,800
IAS Officers: 5,577
CID Officers: 4,594
Media Journalists: 1 Lakh
Education Officers : 20,000
These are the numbers of intelligent people currently working in India.
Yet a 12th class student exposed the massive fraud in COEMPT and CBSE
Imagine the plight of the country
A Stanford psychologist spent 4 years proving that the simple act of walking generates 60% more creative ideas than sitting, and the experiment she designed to kill every alternative explanation is one of the most decisive findings in modern psychology.
Her name is Marily Oppezzo.
She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
The result was almost too clean to publish.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves.
On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision.
She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
This is the part of the study that hit hardest when I read it the first time.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it.
Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes.
The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
The history of this is the part that should haunt anyone who still does meetings in chairs.
Charles Darwin built a gravel loop behind his house in Kent called the Sandwalk and walked it 3 times a day for the rest of his life. The theory of evolution was developed one lap at a time on that path.
Nietzsche walked up to 10 hours a day during the years he wrote his most important books and openly said the work was conceived on his feet.
Beethoven composed for the morning and walked for 5 hours every afternoon with a pencil in his pocket for when something landed.
Kahneman said the best thinking of his Nobel Prize-winning career happened on leisurely walks with Amos Tversky. Steve Jobs refused to take important conversations sitting down. He held them on foot.
Every one of them was using the system Oppezzo would not measure until 2014. They just did not know what to call it.
The question worth sitting with is the one almost nobody asks.
Every meeting you have ever attended sitting around a table was a meeting held at a fraction of the brain power that was actually available to the people in the room. Every brainstorm that got stuck inside a conference room. Every problem you tried to solve at a desk and gave up on. Every idea you could not quite get to.
The intervention is the easiest one in modern science. No supplement. No app. No subscription. No training program. Just a pair of legs and 15 minutes.
The Stanford lab proved it. The philosophers knew it. The neuroscience explains it.
And almost everyone reading this is still trying to think their way out of problems sitting completely still.
Most people overcomplicate success. They look for hacks and secrets.
In reality, it’s just 3 simple variables:
- be brave enough to look stupid starting.
- be humble enough to admit you know nothing.
- be stubborn enough to outlast the pain.
The barrier to entry isn't capital. It's character.
The first gift is life. The second gift is good health.
The third gift is to love and be loved. The fourth gift is peace of mind.
There are no other gifts that matter as much.
The fifth gift is having the wisdom to know what to appreciate most.
Market rotating back into nuclear stocks again, which were crushed in recent months:
Nano Nuclear Energy +10.4% after it acquired nuclear logistics and transportation company Secured Transportation Services LLC for $13 million. Secured Transportation will allow Nano Nuclear to scale through spent fuel, HALEU fuel and advanced reactor components transportation, according to a release
Oklo +10% after the DOE selected it for advanced negotiations under the Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program. The program will give Oklo surplus plutonium for conversion into nuclear fuel “This program creates a pathway to use existing surplus material as bridge fuel for advanced reactors to bring more reactors online sooner,” CEO Jacob DeWitte wrote in a release
Vicor Corp. +7.7% after it raised its 2Q revenue guidance to $142 million from $126 million. Vicor received a new licensee for its power system technology, which is expected to raise product revenues and royalties, according to a release
Other nuclear stocks also gained: NuScale +5.4%, Vertiv +5.1%
$NNE The acquisition of STS directly supports NANO Nuclear’s broader strategy of building a fully vertically integrated business, spanning:
- Reactor design and development.
Fuel sourcing and processing (LEU/HALEU ecosystem).
- Fuel transportation and logistics.
- Reactor deployment and installation.
- Long-term operational support.
By integrating STS into its operations, NANO Nuclear gains the ability to coordinate the movement of nuclear fuel and reactor systems from origin to deployment site, a capability that is expected to become increasingly valuable as demand for microreactors accelerates globally.