Why Running? Well, running is one of the most exhausting activities we can do. When you're running you push yourself to continue even when your body is hurting. It doesn't matter if you are a great runner or a beginner, it's the same for all of us. Running is more of a mental challenge than anything else, in fact, the body is capable of running for days on end (with a continuous supply of water). The mind however, is more likely to fail long before the body will, which is why running is such a great tool for conditioning the psyche to keep on going when the going gets tough. You train your mentality and realize that you are stronger than you might imagine. The lessons you learn on the track will serve you well in the rest of your life, you will realize that you can always keep on pushing, even when you got the weight of the world on top of your shoulders. Running is also a great form of exercise that is very natural for us humans, and doesn't require us to get an expensive gym membership that we'll end up not using. It's great for our health, short-term (weight loss/no weight gain) and long-term (cardiovascular health and so forth), and a 30 minute run has been scientifically proven to improve our mood and overall mental fitness as well.

Why Reading? There is a not a problem in the world that you might experience that someone else has not already dealt with and written in a book. There is so much valuable knowledge available in books and on the internet that it is an invaluable key to solving any problem you might come across. Now books wont always get you all the way, you have to apply the knowledge you have in your head or it wont serve you. But before you can do something you have to know what to do. There are books for everyone and about anything – just like iPhone apps. And not only will reading educate you, but it will make you more proficient and skilled with languages and in speaking them.

As you see, a pair of running shoes and a good book will get you a long way. However the value in running & reading is not so much the acts itself, but what we can learn from them. Now grab a book, your running shoes and go solve your problems – or read about them and break a sweat. Either way, you can't go wrong.

Please comment with your thoughts and feedback!

Thanks,

- Philip

The movie is great, I definitely recommend it to any who likes to challenge their beliefs, and their brains. And even more so if you're in to sci-fi books and the likes. However good the movie might be, the idea behind it is what fascinates me. It's mind-boggling. There are so many things I would like to ask a man who is that old, just imagine how much he (or she for that matter) could teach us, not to mention the awesome camp fire stories of hunting mammoths, dining with the ancient Romans and painting with Van Gogh. Imagine the amount of knowledge he has had time to acquire during his lifetime, the things he has seen, the people he has met and places he has visited. I can't grasp the implications of such a life span, my mind is still to limited, but it fascinates me.

He is a man whose life has stretched further in time than that of most (if not all) civilizations known to us, he has lived through the shifts in culture and experienced so many religions. Seeing as our society today is highly effected by the evolution of the Abrahamic religions starting more than 3000 years ago, and that our culture and traditions are a strongly linked to that history, I can not even begin to grasp what kind of insights a 14 000 year old man might have. He has experienced the evolution that has shaped our society and religions. Talk about "thinking outside the Box". And I find it hard to believe that a hypothetical person like him would conform to a religion, he "knows" what they're all about, he has experienced them all and probably worshiped hundreds of gods during his life. He has seen all the atrocities performed in the name of religions throughout human history – not to mention the Abrahamic ones. And he as lived long before all the prophets of our "modern" religions, he might even have met them. It would be hard to imagine that a man like that would idolize people like many of us do the prophets (or Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan).

I feel like I could keep discussing and pondering this subject forever, but I only have another couple of decades so I wanna have time for a few other things as well. Although it is worth thinking about, a lot.

To conclude, what would you ask him, if you had one question?

Answer with a comment and watch the movie!

- Philip