Solvitur Ambulando — Latin for “it is solved by walking.” And so I was not surprised when my wife gave me this book as a gift — we love to walk and talk together each day.
A 2014 study at Stanford University revealed that our creative output increases by 60% when we are walking! And this is a wonderful, practical stroll through every aspect of walking, written as an interactive journal to carry with you as you walk.
As Soren Kierkegaard puts it,
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk:
every day I walk myself into a state of well-being
and walk away from every illness;
I have walked myself into my best thoughts
and I know of no thought so burdensome
that one cannot walk away from it.