> 10,000 being a round number is how it was chosen arbitrarily by the Japanese According to a 2019 article from Harvard Health, “10,000 steps” was a marketing

> 10,000 being a round number is how it was chosen arbitrarily by the Japanese According to a 2019 article from Harvard Health, “10,000 steps” was a marketing term for hardware made by a Japanese company. (Not sure if the original root goes back to Japanese folklore, but the article implies it doesn’t.) > Dr. Lee discovered that the origins of the number go back to 1965, when a Japanese company made a device named Manpo-kei, which translates to "10,000 steps meter." “The name was a marketing tool,” she says. [0] [0] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/10000-steps-a-day-or-fewer-2019071117305 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/10000-steps-a-day-or-few...