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What If We Stopped Optimizing Everything? [SOLO Episode]
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I read something on Substack recently that I haven't been able to stop thinking about: our grandmas didn't optimize everything. How have I never thought of that?!?
I'm someone who has fully bought into optimization — the Garmin, the protein goals, the sleep scores… I love checking things off and feeling like I’ve succeeded. And yet somewhere along the way, I started to wonder: are we actually living better, or are we just living from a distance?
I'm currently in what I can only describe as a whimsical, choose-your-own-adventure spring, and something shifted when I was in Guatemala and forgot my Garmin. I was just moving, eating, resting, and doing a sunrise hike that nearly ended me. And I felt more like myself than I had in a long time!
In this episode, I'm talking about:
- Why I think we're living in peak optimization culture and what it's costing us
- Learning to trust yourself again after outsourcing all your data to devices and apps
- Moving and eating intuitively — what that actually looks like for me right now
- Why not knowing my sleep score is genuinely making my days better
- You're allowed to take a break from optimizing
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