"And while [[Søren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard]] was particularly eloquent in his writing about walking, he was by no means alone in his dedication to the practice—nor alone in reaping the benefits. [[Nietzsche]] said that the ideas in [[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]] came to him on a long walk. [[Nikola Tesla]] discovered the rotating magnetic field, one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time, on a walk through a city park in [[Budapest]] in 1882. When he lived in [[Paris]], [[Ernest Hemingway]] would take long walks along the quais whenever he was stuck in his writing and needed to clarify his thinking. [[Charles Darwin]]’s daily schedule included several walks, as did those of [[Steve Jobs]] and the groundbreaking psychologists [[Amos Tversky]] and [[Daniel Kahneman]], the latter of whom wrote that “**I did the best thinking of my life on leisurely walks with Amos.” It was the physical activity in the body, [[Daniel Kahneman|Kahneman]] said, that got his brain going."** ([Location 2074](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07QY3CZ9L&location=2074)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[exercise]], [[relationships]], [[teaching anecdotes]] **Source** -- [[202409180133 - B - Stillness is the Key]]