Modern man may dismiss as nonsense the advice of the advocates of long walks—a numerous group ranging from Nietzsche to Taleb—but the truth is that life changes noticeably, and for the better, when one cultivates the habit of walking. Certainly, one cannot always walk like those men, long and carefree, turning the walk into a kind of meditation in motion; however, the man who replaces traffic, public transportation, and cars with walking, allowing it and its effects to become part of his routine, instead of and in place of the inevitable wear and tear caused by those, will find that his life has become significantly better. Few things are as certain as this: moving with one’s own body, through one’s own effort, at a natural pace, every day, completely changes the mood with which one wakes up in the mornings.