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thebooktocome on April 9, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Are grains making us fat? If so, we should be much...

The gyms have an economic incentive to make people sign up, but not go to them. It's hardly a failure of people to want to go to the gym but stop, if the gym is purposely designed to be as boring as possible.

georgieporgie on April 9, 2011 [–]

if the gym is purposely designed to be as boring as possible.

A gym is precisely as boring as the inside of your head.

I recommend audio books.

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