Why Your Brain Refuses To Let You Sit Still

Your leg is bouncing right now. You didn't decide to do that. Restlessness isn't broken focus or weak discipline. It's a two-million-year-old system running correctly in a room it was never designed for — and the chair you're sitting in is one of the strangest objects your species has ever built. This video covers: — Why the Hadza of Tanzania burn the same calories as an office worker — How small unconscious movements can differ by 2,000 calories a day between two identical people — Why humans never evolved to exercise, and why laziness is ancient — The difference between sitting and stillness, and why only one of them is the problem — What your brain switches on the moment you stop doing anything — Why people chose electric shocks over being alone with their thoughts Research referenced: Herman Pontzer (Duke University), James Levine (Mayo Clinic), Daniel Lieberman (Harvard), David Raichlen, Marcus Raichle, Timothy Wilson (University of Virginia), Gareth Hagger-Johnson. Human Vestige explains the leftovers — the instincts, reflexes and habits built for a world that stopped existing, and never got switched off. New video every week.