Gary Brecka and a co-speaker explain how physical exercise rewires your brain and builds mental resilience. Hard physical challenges create new neuronal pathways, while running releases endorphins and can replace harmful coping mechanisms. A fit body is the strongest foundation for mental health, especially for young entrepreneurs who often skip movement entirely.
There's also a lot of science around doing hard things, how the brain actually grows and creates new neuronal pathways. And stress can be good or bad. And I think we don't talk enough about what exercise does for our mental state. And I think that people put off exercise to focus everything on their business, especially young entrepreneurs. Yeah. And they don't realize that their superpower is still locked inside them.
There was something about whether like mental health is led with the mind or your body. And I really think like the strongest foundation for your mind is to have a fit, able body, and then you can build from there. You can't outthink mental health problems. If you're struggling with your mind and what you're thinking about, and you sit in the house on your own, lights off or something, can you sit there and just think about it? Make it worse. But you go out and like, you go for a run, you release some endorphins, you feel great. And that's what I really think, like, it helped me with going sober 100%. Like, I had half marathon to run on a Sunday morning, I couldn't go out, and I went out and I felt amazing.
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