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Zuckerberg did 5000 pushups throughout the course of a week[1], which proves that he's at least moderately fit. Richard Branson's main piece of productivity ad
by SatvikBeri 14y ago
Zuckerberg did 5000 pushups throughout the course of a week[1], which proves that he's at least moderately fit.
Richard Branson's main piece of productivity advice is "work out"[2].
A strong counterexample would be Warren Buffett, who was once the world's richest man, never worked out, and ate terribly.
Ultimately though it's best to look at the studies other responders to your post cited, which do show some correlation between exercise and mental performance.
Edit: forgot my links
[1]: http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/02/mark-zuckerberg-the-evolution-of-a-remarkable-ceo/ http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/02/mark-zuckerberg-the-evolut...
[2]: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/222739 http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/222739
- rmATinnovafy 14y agoBuffett was into bodybuilding as a teenager/young adult.
- SatvikBeri 14y agoSource? I didn't see anything like that in his authorized biography The Snowball. And it specifically mentioned several times that Buffett always hated manual labor, always ate badly etc.
- rmATinnovafy 14y agoIt is in his biography where it appears. Though it is not talked about a lot.
- SatvikBeri 14y agoOh wow, totally forgot about that. It's covered in a couple of pages in section 11...good to know.
- beza1e1 14y agoI cannot find this "work out" advice in the article you linked [2].
- SatvikBeri 14y agoYou're right-the quote showed up in the Google summary of the page, but not the page itself. Weird. Here is a video where Branson says he achieves "twice as much" on a day when he works out compared to a day when he doesn't exercise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFjgMKwpz_k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFjgMKwpz_k