19. Our brains want us to be lazy. - Deepstash
19. Our brains want us to be lazy.

19. Our brains want us to be lazy.

Evolutionarily speaking, conserving energy is a good thing—when food was scarce, our ancestors still had to be ready for anything. Unfortunately for anyone watching their weight, that still holds true today. A small study published in Current Biology found that when walking on a treadmill, volunteers would automatically adjust their gait to burn fewer calories.

340

1.35K reads

CURATED FROM

IDEAS CURATED BY

tomjoad

Introverted Extravert

40 Mind Blowing Psychology Facts that Seriously Explain Everything

The idea is part of this collection:

Managing People

Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection

Conflict resolution

Motivating and inspiring others

Delegation

Related collections

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates