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My Mind Only Works With My Legs

Walking aids thinking

Jean-Jacques Rousseau recognized a connection, at least in his own case, between cognition and locomotion:

I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Confessions (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1953), 382.

About Ryan

Ryan writes for weary pilgrims learning to follow Jesus through the wilderness. He served as a lead pastor at a church in Southern California for 8+ years. Before that, he worked as a software engineer for a decade. Today, he lives with his family in Escondido, California.

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