Kori Sampson explains how exercise directly improves mental health by building new neural pathways and releasing endorphins. She used running and training for a half-marathon to maintain sobriety, and argues that physical fitness is the foundation for a resilient mind, especially for entrepreneurs who neglect movement while chasing business goals.
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 have a fit, able body, and then you can build from there. You 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, and 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.
