The secret to a long, healthy life may have more to do with how much, how often, and how well you relax each day, than how many steps you take.
Unfortunately for those who adore their Fitbits, fitness trackers, and other forms of fitness jewelry, their devices can’t capture relaxation metrics. The technology is just too primitive.
We’re a society plagued by a constant burden to have something to show for ourselves: finishing Making a Murderer on Netflix and tweeting at Dean Strang that he’s your hero; walking 10,000 steps before 8pm and posting it on the Facebook; listening to WNYC’s Only Human podcast while doing burpees at the gym, figuring out what you’d do if you lived to be a super-centenarian.