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Take the exercises home
12 mobility exercises to practice daily — nourish the joints, reverse the chair.
Key Takeaways
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We copied resilience patterns from the body into our systems—redundancy, feedback loops, graceful degradation—time to run them back the other way
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The body adapts to whatever we do all day: hold the same shape for decades and it becomes who we are—chair-shaped
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Reserve is the capacity built on ordinary days that decides your outcome when a shock lands—small deposits now, large withdrawal later
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Some damage is permanent, but a surprising amount rebuilds faster than you think—the ROI is highest NOW and shrinks the longer you wait
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The scaffold: Identity, Environment, A Sustainable Start, Feedback, Accountability, Recovery—same pieces, your own recipe
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The minimum: a break every hour, 10,000 steps a day, a few intense workouts a week—covers all three jobs of movement
For Teams
Bring this to your organisation
The talk covers individual habits — but the SMART Work & Life programme (University of Leicester, published in the prestigious BMJ) delivers this as a structured, evidence-based workshop for dev teams. Georgios champions the SMART programme for engineering teams.
Evidence-based · University of Leicester · Published in the BMJ
Research Papers Cited
- Multisystemic Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of ChangeUngar, M. (Ed.), 2021The resilience framework behind the talk — process, not traitView paper (opens in new window) →
- Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and TransformabilityFolke et al., 2010Resilience as the capacity to change in order to sustain identityView paper (opens in new window) →
- Structural spinal abnormalities on MRI in a general pediatric populationvan den Heuvel et al., 202173% of 9-year-olds have disc bulging (Generation R Study)View paper (opens in new window) →
- Effect of prolonged sitting and breaks in sitting time on endothelial functionThosar et al., 2015Artery elasticity drops 2–4% after just 3 hours of sittingView paper (opens in new window) →
- Insulin resistance induced by physical inactivityAlibegovic et al., 20104,500+ genes shift expression after days of inactivityView paper (opens in new window) →
- The Salutogenic Model of HealthAntonovsky via Mittelmark et al., 2017The river of life — no one is on the shoreView paper (opens in new window) →