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> Sounds like solid advice to me. Sounds like pretty generic advice that I've heard from older people...basically all my life. Maybe there's some underlying tr

> Sounds like solid advice to me. Sounds like pretty generic advice that I've heard from older people...basically all my life. Maybe there's some underlying truth that creates the commonality, but for the most part this is about on par with "Don't do stuff that will kill you" which is vapid and useless.

strken 2y ago
Chronic stress is bad for you[0]. Yeah, you can call advice to avoid chronic stress vapid and useless if you want, but so many people still willingly expose themselves to it that a reminder is probably helpful. [0] See e.g. https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/69/Suppl_1/S10/586943 https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/69/Suppl_... for a bit of an overview
- genocidicbunny 2y ago
  It's vapid because it's largely non-actionable advice. To a large degree, we don't get to pick whether or not we are stressed, the world picks that for us, and at the same time it's highly personal, so what worked for one person may have the opposite effect for another. I see it as almost equivalent to saying that the key to your long-livedness was that you ate food and drank liquids. No shit sherlock, you'd have been dead a long time ago if you never ate any food or drank any liquids.
  - strken 2y ago
    Do you really think most people avoid stress? I personally do all sorts of stressful things for reasons that probably aren't worth it, and I bet most of the western world does too. I bet someone, somewhere, made it to 100 even though they worked 60 hours a week with an untreated anxiety disorder and slept an average of six and a half hours during their working life. It's more like saying your longevity was because you ate lots of vegetables and walked to work every day. That is a real factor of longevity. Whether it's "good" advice is a matter of perspective, because everyone already knows they should eat vegetables and exercise and the advice won't change many people's habits, just like everyone already knows they should quit their shitty job and go to sleep at 10:30pm, but both pieces of advice are certainly actionable.

strken 2y ago

Chronic stress is bad for you[0]. Yeah, you can call advice to avoid chronic stress vapid and useless if you want, but so many people still willingly expose themselves to it that a reminder is probably helpful. [0] See e.g. https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/69/Suppl_1/S10/586943 https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/69/Suppl_... for a bit of an overview

genocidicbunny 2y ago
It's vapid because it's largely non-actionable advice. To a large degree, we don't get to pick whether or not we are stressed, the world picks that for us, and at the same time it's highly personal, so what worked for one person may have the opposite effect for another. I see it as almost equivalent to saying that the key to your long-livedness was that you ate food and drank liquids. No shit sherlock, you'd have been dead a long time ago if you never ate any food or drank any liquids.
- strken 2y ago
  Do you really think most people avoid stress? I personally do all sorts of stressful things for reasons that probably aren't worth it, and I bet most of the western world does too. I bet someone, somewhere, made it to 100 even though they worked 60 hours a week with an untreated anxiety disorder and slept an average of six and a half hours during their working life. It's more like saying your longevity was because you ate lots of vegetables and walked to work every day. That is a real factor of longevity. Whether it's "good" advice is a matter of perspective, because everyone already knows they should eat vegetables and exercise and the advice won't change many people's habits, just like everyone already knows they should quit their shitty job and go to sleep at 10:30pm, but both pieces of advice are certainly actionable.