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Shutdown rituals can become annoying, as they add an extra ten to fifteen minutes to the end of your workday (and sometimes even more), but they’re necessary for reaping the rewards of systematic idleness summarized previously. From my experience, it should take a week or two before the shutdown habit sticks—that is, until your mind trusts your ritual enough to actually begin to release work-related thoughts in the evening. But once it does stick, the ritual will become a permanent fixture in your life—to the point that skipping the routine will fill you with a sense of unease.
A Final Word on Mobility Here’s the final word on mobility: When you begin to use the techniques you’ve just been introduced to, you’ll immediately notice changes in the way you move, the way your joints feel, and any nagging aches and pains. But these changes will be minuscule compared with how you’re going to feel and move in six months to two years. Why will it take that long? Research on fascia (and the trusted word of Kelly Starrett) has shown that rewiring your fascia and completely changing your mobility and range of motion in a long-lasting way takes about six to twenty-four months. So mobility is a game of patience. And it is totally worth it, even if means keeping a golf ball under your desk, a lacrosse ball in your underwear drawer, and a foam roller on your back porch for the next two years. So what’s next? In case you haven’t been counting, there is one more essential element of an endurance-training program that most athletes neglect: balance. And trust me, balance goes way above and beyond standing on one foot while you’re brushing your teeth.
Beyond Training
Ben Greenfield
We went at it on every front. I convened a meeting of our senior team every morning at 8 a.m. to discuss what we could to do to drive Anthony from the race. Here’s the best of what we did: Earned media: I kicked things off by saying, on the front page of the New York Times, that if Anthony ran, I’d add an extra $20 million to our campaign budget to ensure that we destroyed his reputation so thoroughly, he’d never be able to run for anything ever again. In retrospect, the threat probably landed harder than I realized because Anthony was already starting to self-destruct. (It wasn’t like what he got caught doing on Twitter didn’t exist in other, pre-Twitter formats before then.) We started exactly where anyone would when it comes to Anthony Weiner: sex. In his time as a member of the House, Anthony had passed all of one bill. And that one illustrious piece of legislation was to give more visas to models. Yep, protecting the rights of hot women was Anthony’s sole achievement in office. That was a good point to make but not an exposé in and of itself. But then our research team noticed something: Anthony had also received campaign contributions from many of the models who received highly coveted H1B visas. Not only was this pay-to-play (give contributions, get government favors), it was illegal. Only American citizens can donate to American political campaigns. He took money from foreign nationals. We gave the story to the New York Post and they ran with it. “Weiner’s ‘Naughty’ Hottie$” ran the next day. Because it captured so many of Anthony’s flaws in one piece—his lack of actual work, his shallowness, his shady ethics, and of course, his shallow obsession with models—the press ran with it. It wasn’t enough to knock Anthony out of the race but it certainly got his attention.
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