Mitch4 wonders, “There must be some simple fact related, maybe ‘Wellness’ stuff?”
I know I’m stumped!
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No idea. My guess is that it translates to “Just start doing it, and soon you’ll get used to it.” I think they’re about to start their morning run or some other exercise.
A Google search turned up an AA chip that says “Bring the Body and The Mind Will Follow”. This might be a play on that.
The prefrontal cortex is where abstract thought takes place. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain (and the rest of the nervous system) to remodel itself based on what a person does and experiences.
How it applies to starting a jog … ???
Or as the song says, “Free your mind and your @$$ will follow.”
The prefrontal cortex is where your willpower, or something like it, resides. It’s where the part of “you” that can make rational decisions that go against your simple animal instincts mostly is.
Neuroplasticity is the way in which your thought processes and habits change over time.
In other words … this isn’t so much “funny” as “just an offbeat way of saying something that is actually true.”
“It’s time to do it” is generally an abstract concept about acting in concert with your more advanced instincts. “I’m not ready” is a response sent up by your simple lizard brain which says that it’s a bad idea to move unless you are in danger; doing stuff is unpleasant.
So, the person on the left is saying “Use your human free will to override your animal instinct to avoid unpleasant things and it will get easier over time.”
Not humorous, per se, but at least it’s accurate and does apply to exercise.
Yeah, I agree with Beckoning and the others. It’s just a nerdy/playful way to tell her she’ll get used to it.
(But she won’t. Since neither one thought to remove their makeup before running, their faces are going to be a wreck of acne tomorrow and they will quietly let the matter drop.)
Here’s the strip-layout version. I don’t think there is much difference of impression.
@padraig (4): “You can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to The Corps!”
Here’s the strip-layout version. I don’t think there is much difference of impression.
Actually, I think this second version makes it seem more that the fact that they are jogging is just background setting, not particularly germane to the point of the conversation — they happen to be jogging while having this conversation. The one panel version makes you focus more on the jogging and perhaps it being the point of the conversation.
(Of course, maybe I feel that because I saw the one panel version first, and was slowly made to see that the jogging wasn’t really a vital element, so now I see the second layout and just go, of course, now it’s clear that the jogging is just incidental…)
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No idea. My guess is that it translates to “Just start doing it, and soon you’ll get used to it.” I think they’re about to start their morning run or some other exercise.
A Google search turned up an AA chip that says “Bring the Body and The Mind Will Follow”. This might be a play on that.
The prefrontal cortex is where abstract thought takes place. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain (and the rest of the nervous system) to remodel itself based on what a person does and experiences.
How it applies to starting a jog … ???
Or as the song says, “Free your mind and your @$$ will follow.”
The prefrontal cortex is where your willpower, or something like it, resides. It’s where the part of “you” that can make rational decisions that go against your simple animal instincts mostly is.
Neuroplasticity is the way in which your thought processes and habits change over time.
In other words … this isn’t so much “funny” as “just an offbeat way of saying something that is actually true.”
“It’s time to do it” is generally an abstract concept about acting in concert with your more advanced instincts. “I’m not ready” is a response sent up by your simple lizard brain which says that it’s a bad idea to move unless you are in danger; doing stuff is unpleasant.
So, the person on the left is saying “Use your human free will to override your animal instinct to avoid unpleasant things and it will get easier over time.”
Not humorous, per se, but at least it’s accurate and does apply to exercise.
Yeah, I agree with Beckoning and the others. It’s just a nerdy/playful way to tell her she’ll get used to it.
(But she won’t. Since neither one thought to remove their makeup before running, their faces are going to be a wreck of acne tomorrow and they will quietly let the matter drop.)
Here’s the strip-layout version. I don’t think there is much difference of impression.
@padraig (4): “You can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to The Corps!”
Here’s the strip-layout version. I don’t think there is much difference of impression.
Actually, I think this second version makes it seem more that the fact that they are jogging is just background setting, not particularly germane to the point of the conversation — they happen to be jogging while having this conversation. The one panel version makes you focus more on the jogging and perhaps it being the point of the conversation.
(Of course, maybe I feel that because I saw the one panel version first, and was slowly made to see that the jogging wasn’t really a vital element, so now I see the second layout and just go, of course, now it’s clear that the jogging is just incidental…)