"My father did that too, but mostly in the form of being the one driving us to all these places and supporting us through the actual physical support," she says. "If there was anything we wanted to learn, they made it happen. We got to use Commodore 64." She adds: "They always told us growing up that our job was to learn"
Pay a visit to your local gym, observe the grimacing patrons as they pound the treadmill or march in place on the StairMaster, and you might conclude that exercise is no fun. But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to Kelly McGonigal, who lectures at Stanford, teaches dance classes, and wrote “The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage.” Today, she explains how exercise — of all kinds and in all doses — can strengthen your mind, elevate your mood, and deepen your social connections.