Jogging in the 50-60s was what's meditation today: it was gaining popularity, but if you told someone you'll go for a run, they looked at your weird, asking "who's chasing you?"<p>This is something my mom told me before, and so I'm not quite sure how true it really is. But, if it was true, I'm sure there were a few articles out there titled "Can We End the Jogging Madness?"
Hm, weird that he didn't mention the thing that I thought most of us were chasing: increased productivity. I meditate and began meditating to increase my ability to concentrate on one thing at a time. I found it has helped tremendously. I do feel the stress alleviating effects as well. Honestly, any advantage that you can get in life is going to payoff in the long run. It seems to me that the author just wanted to bark about something to be the edgy contrarian of his social network.