Bryan Johnson uses brief physical movements like split squats throughout his workday to untangle complex ideas. He interrupts static posture every five minutes, claiming that bodily motion loosens both physical stiffness and mental knots while writing or thinking deeply.
So these movements I do throughout the day, they help my body feel fresh and flexible. Also, when I'm thinking about really hard topics, it's almost like I'm wrestling with ideas through my body. If I'm writing and I'm intensely struggling on how to communicate something where I find an idea that I just have to untangle by moving my body around or getting into a split squat, it really just helps me almost wrestle with the idea with my mind. And so every five minutes or so, I find it's this process I go through of trying to unwind complexity. I'm doing it with my body and the ideas at the same time. And so I've just found this fluid way to work throughout my day. It also helps me not feel stiff where I do work out quite a bit. And so if I'm in a certain position for a long time, I can feel my body kind of stiffen up.
