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akes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens. Yeah, that's right. Right now. Sublime. So good.

Well, according to Eric Dolan, who is writing for PsyPost, if you have a virtual workout partner or partners, I guess, it will still boost your exercise motivation. So if you put on your virtual reality glasses or I don't know, maybe if you watch them on the screen, if you see recorded images of real people who did the same workout as you so that you're doing it at the same time, you will feel the social effect of that. Even though you know they're not real people, you'll still be more motivated to work out.

Do you think that would work with you? Do you believe that you would be more motivated if other people were working out at the same time but you knew they were fake people? They're not real people. Well, I don't know if that would work for me, but I can tell you that when I've gone to real gyms, I'm only motivated if there are attractive women also at the gym. And do any of you have that same problem? Any of the guys? If the gym is nothing but middle-aged fat men, which, you know, depending when you go, I used to go in the afternoon. It would be a lot of handicapped people and people who are 80 years old and people who are trying a personal trainer for the first time. It's not going well. It is not motivating. It's not motivating at all.

But boy, whe

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n you walk in the gym and it's all the young strong people, and even the guys are motivating if they're really in good shape because you look at them and you go, "God, that guy's in such good shape. We're going to have to take it up a level." So it might work. I don't know. But did you know separately, according to The Independent, Albert Thor is writing that four in 10 Gen Z employees would rath…

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