
So we walk every day. When we wake up and go to the bathroom, kitchen, and towards the car, we walk. It is a common thing the most of us do aside from talking, and the health benefits of walking, both physically and mentally, are known to us. But did you know that there are four types of walking which you probably don’t notice? Well, not until now, you don’t.
Chun-Yu Kuo and Yei-Yu Yeh had undergraduate students from the National Taiwan University contemplate alternate uses for chopsticks while they walked the perimeter of a 400 x 500 meter rectangular area or wandered freely within the area. They all then had 10 minutes to list out uses, and the free walking group outperformed the rectangle walkers on the task. — Thomas Ward Ph.D.