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What do you do to stay sane?
Here's a project asking people to list five things they do to stay sane. I'm going to arbitrage and ask only for one thing you do to stay sane. Please leave your answer in the comments.
I try to listen to beautiful music at least once a day, I don't check my portfolio even in the best of times, I hug a loved one at least one more time than was expected (with adaptive expectations this is hard to sustain over time but I have my tricks), and also I avoid television advertisements as much as possible. That's four, you need only offer one.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on October 16, 2008 at 12:52 PM in Science | Permalink
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Playing immersive video games and perhaps eating good quality dark chocolate.
Posted by: Jeff H. at Oct 16, 2008 12:58:35 PM
A mountain-bike loop always helps.
Posted by: odograph at Oct 16, 2008 12:58:40 PM
I take care of patients at the psychiatric hospital.
Posted by: Pup, MD at Oct 16, 2008 12:58:53 PM
Go for a hike in beautiful nature. Go for a run. Go for a bike ride. Play pool billiard, by myself.
Posted by: Commenterlein at Oct 16, 2008 12:59:20 PM
I read G.K. Chesterton.
Posted by: Nathanael Snow at Oct 16, 2008 1:01:16 PM
I avoid reading the guardian and the new statesman
Posted by: Mill at Oct 16, 2008 1:01:39 PM
Poetry and IPA. A little bit of both, and everything seems a
bit more tolerable.
Posted by: Jarndyce at Oct 16, 2008 1:02:31 PM
I think of the plight of others less blessed and give praise that I have a wonderful family.
Posted by: DanC at Oct 16, 2008 1:02:33 PM
Pet a purring cat; go for a run; strength training.
Posted by: MKB at Oct 16, 2008 1:02:40 PM
I drink at night.
Posted by: Matt at Oct 16, 2008 1:03:53 PM
Meditate.
Posted by: at Oct 16, 2008 1:04:22 PM
Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last
Your whole life long
Don’t worry that it’s not
Good enough for anyone
Else to hear....
They'll have to figure out THEIR OWN ways to stay sane!
(My son once brought a friend to use one of the basement computers, near me. When his friend started to speak, my son said "Don't talk. It will only remind my dad of a song.")
Posted by: Jens Fiederer at Oct 16, 2008 1:05:51 PM
Avoid listening to politicians speak at all cost, and if forced to hear them speak play a drinking game.
Posted by: Jay at Oct 16, 2008 1:06:07 PM
Sing, ride my bike
Posted by: Tom Brandt at Oct 16, 2008 1:06:31 PM
I turn my computer and TV off any time I am with my son.
Posted by: Alanna at Oct 16, 2008 1:06:59 PM
Dance
Posted by: Larry at Oct 16, 2008 1:08:39 PM
Read Karma Yoga chapter from Vivekanand Volume 1 and read a page from Meditations by Markus Aurelius. These days look at the face my newly born.
Posted by: Pankaj at Oct 16, 2008 1:09:16 PM
I do Yoga excercises in the early morning hours.That keeps me sane.Reading biographies is another alternative.
Posted by: GVV at Oct 16, 2008 1:10:15 PM
take a walk. play the piano. read enduring works written before i was born. don't set the alarm on weekends. interact with non-human animals.
Posted by: curious at Oct 16, 2008 1:10:45 PM
Push myself to the point of nearly being insane ... and then stop ... completely.
Posted by: wintercow20 at Oct 16, 2008 1:10:46 PM
go to the movies by myself.
Posted by: Floyd B. Pishko at Oct 16, 2008 1:12:33 PM
Think of my wife, and remember why it is that I even get out of bed in the morning.
Posted by: john at Oct 16, 2008 1:13:45 PM
I think about the fact that, even though I fear death, there was a whole eternity of non-me, BEFORE I got here, and I don't have the least anxiety about it.
Posted by: Lee A. Arnold at Oct 16, 2008 1:14:46 PM
Go for a drive with the windows down and music playing, listen to good stand-up comedy, avoid news channels and computers, run around town with the four legged furry family member....
Posted by: Chribster at Oct 16, 2008 1:15:52 PM
run a marathon once a year
Posted by: db at Oct 16, 2008 1:15:58 PM
