On Walking

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a particular quality to ideas that arrive while walking. They come unbidden, fully formed, as though they’d been waiting for you to stop sitting still.

Nietzsche said it: “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” Kierkegaard walked the streets of Copenhagen for hours. Wordsworth logged an estimated 180,000 miles on foot. These are not coincidences.

The rhythm of walking does something that sitting cannot. It loosens the grip of the analytical mind and lets the associative mind wander. Step, step, step — and suddenly the solution to a problem you hadn’t been thinking about appears.

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On Walking