Autonomic Nervous System : Conditioning

The main benefit of physical exercise to me, is to smack the autonomic nervous system / ANS into shape. Conscious computation must handle work that isn't subconsciously managed by the ANS ... over time, as conscious computation manages and adjusts tasks originating from the ANS, conscious resources are more and more limited. Performance of conscious computation is strongly dependent on a successful regime of delegating work back to the ANS. 

Basically, modern life is not what the body was designed for. The ANS basically gets lazy and disfunctional, and needs to be tricked, into feeling like it's still out on the savannah punching tigers. To explain this more basically ... ploughing fields, or moving hammers at speed, are equivalently stressful.

This is a good consideration for doctrine.

The Parable of the F*cked-up Fry-Up Firings

A parable.

There was a man who opened a restaurant to serve fry-ups. Business did not go as planned, and then he decided to sell ice cream. He dispatched his middle-managers to bring him a report of which staff would be suitable or unsuitable for the ice cream business, as he wished to fire the others.

One manager was confused, and sought the counsel of a friend. "What should I do, should I tell the staff, what is really happening?" Her friend replied, "you fool, do not keep secrets from your family, it is a waste of each person's time - and the family is no richer. Simply tell everyone that you are no longer serving fry-ups, and let each one decide their fate."