# @guykawasaki on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-19T16:03:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki) — https://gondola.cc/guykawasaki

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Five minutes of movement every thirty minutes. That is the entire prescription, and I have never felt more personally called out by a book.

Manoush Zomorodi hosts NPR’s TED Radio Hour and wrote Body Electric. I told her that of the 300-plus
guests we have had on this show, hers is the book that convicted me the most. I read the news on my phone
before I sleep, in the middle of the night, and the second I wake up. Then I spend my freshest brain hours of the day answering email.

Here is what she taught me:

1. Five minutes, every half hour. Keith Diaz at Columbia went looking for the minimum amount of movement
a human body needs. Five minutes of gentle walking every thirty minutes largely offsets the harm of sitting.

2. You cannot out-exercise a chair. I asked if one hard workout could cover me for the day. No. I asked about
a standing desk. Also no. Standing is not movement.

3. The results are not subtle. Manoush spent a day in the lab and cut her glucose in half and her blood
pressure by five points. Twenty thousand people then ran the experiment, rated their fatigue up to 28
percent lower, and the study is peer-reviewed in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

4. Schedule it, do not get reminded. Your watch tells you to stand and you shush it. What actually worked
was people making a deal with themselves: in one hour, I take a five-minute break.

5. Boredom is a feature. Mind wandering is where your most original thinking happens, where problems get
solved, and where you quietly plan your own life.

Her line I keep repeating: we are information athletes. Our tool is Google Docs and our muscle is the brain.
Real athletes pace themselves, train, and rest. We just grind and then wonder why the last hour of work
needs rewriting.

She even built a free app for it, called Move Break, and she hopes you delete it by week three because by
then your body is doing the reminding.

Watch or listen to the full conversation at RemarkablePeople.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Be honest with me: how long have you been sitting right now?

-Guy

#RemarkablePeople #ManoushZomorodi #BodyElectric #Productivity #Health

You can’t out-exercise a
chair.

The results were not subtle.

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