This is the kind of crap that gets thousands of claps? Really?
Where's the research proving these sentences will make us mentally stronger than "98% of people"? If you're quoting a figure, you need to cite research. But you can't anyway, because 'mental strength' cannot be measured.
Where's the research proving walking at least 20 minutes (which I actually do recommend) will "solve 85%" of our problems? You cannot write a percentage without citing at least one research article.
The bit about stress comes off as the deluded notion of an overprivileged kid who's never faced actual stress in his life. That might not be true, of course, but I doubt anyone who's ever been seriously stressed would make such an ignorant statement.
The bit about depression is just dangerous. Maybe the author didn't mean "depressed" in the mental illness sense, but using that word without clarification is an insult to people who're actually depressed because of chemical imbalances, trauma, and so on.
Speaking of trauma, if this author were to be believed, there exist superhuman superintellectuals who have the ability to detach themselves from the past with the snap of a finger. And would that be a good thing? I loved my dog more than life itself. He died suddenly, within 48 hours (he had epilepsy, his back gave out, and he had one final seizure in my arms, and he died). I now treat people like this could be our final meeting, because it might well be. Should I forget about that as well?
Why 5 slow breaths? Why not 6? Or 4? Where's the data proving 5 is the magic number?
There are problems in the present moment. This article being one of them.
Say my mother is terminally ill and is in the ICU and the doctor has told me she might go either way. I'm in doubt whether she'll live. How exactly would "getting off my ass" here help?
Well, isn't that something? I'll be totally OK if I let go of my negative thoughts. By the same logic, I will be financially sound the moment I stop being poor. Why didn't I think of that?
This entire article is composed of utopian ideas spouted by someone with seemingly no connection to reality, who seemingly lives on cloud nine, and has never faced a real problem in his real life. I apologize unreservedly if that is not true, but again, I doubt anyone who's faced real, persistent problems in their life would be writing garbage like this. Flimsy ideas and concrete numbers, with no concrete, or even flimsy, evidence to back them up. Had the author just written "21 Ideas I Feel the Ideal Person Would Espouse", I wouldn't be wasting 5 minutes of my life writing a comment no one's going to read to completion. But oh no, the author cited concrete figures, and neglected to back them up with research. That is simply not done.
I'm very disappointed that this is the kind of ignorant, detached from reality garbage that gets almost 10K claps and 200+ comments.
