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▲ wat10000 an hour ago

Imagine if you didn’t feel like running, and you made yourself do it, and after a few K you were like “this sucks, I wish I’d stayed home” and you finish your run and you didn’t enjoy it at all. But people keep telling you how great it is so you keep doing it and you keep hating it and after a while you eventually decide that running is not for you.

Would that be a reasonable conclusion? Or should we conclude that this is a psychological limit and we just need to stop thinking so much?

▲davsti4 an hour ago | parent [-]

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▲devilbunny an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Not everyone gets that. I have exercised very hard at times in my life (American football in high school), and while I feel better in general when I’m active, and playing sports can be quite fun and rewarding, I have never gotten anything from running or other pure exertion other than tired and hungry.

▲wat10000 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The impossible challenge of getting HN commenters to understand that other people may be different.

▲davsti4 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That's right - its "impossible" to teach others about DOSE; how the chemical soup of the body works differently for everyone, including how environmental factors and behaviors of social interactions can affect it, and how someone may want to see an endocrinologist if they want a different outcome to their life. ;P

▲wat10000 4 minutes ago | parent [-]

You might want to elaborate a bit, because I have no idea what DOSE is besides an all-caps spelling of a word which means how much medicine you're given.

While you're at it, rolling in an understanding that people are different and not everybody enjoys any particular thing would not go amiss.

▲kekcnekcnecje 13 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

For a forum that very often likes to pride itself on how “enlightened” discussions are, people are so arrogantly oblivious of one of the simplest and most well-understood facts that people are different. It’s just utterly depressing to see people arguing that “introversion is a choice, you just have to try harder”.