Wednesday, February 11, 2009

What about Exercise?

Up until now, I've focused mostly on skills, and there are quite a few other skills that I want to get into before I launch into this project full time. But there's one element that I think I've left out, and that's exercise.

I would define exercise as an activity that develops an attribute without contributing to a particular skill. For example, jogging is exercise. It doesn't make sense to have a jogging skill, since that's kind of an unskilled attribute. But jogging would certainly contribute to strength and constitution, and probably to dexterity as well.

Physical exercise isn't the only type. Doing a crossword puzzle or a logic problem would constitute mental exercise. Stretching is exercise in dexterity. For that matter, eating a healthy meal could be exercise in constitution, if of a very minor sort. Reading a book could be considered exercise in intelligence or wisdom, depending on the nature of the book. Giving a speech or presentation is an exercise in charisma. In essence, any activity which specifically develops one or more attributes without contributing towards a skill would be considered exercise.

As a result, I'm going to create pages specifically for exercise. Each exercise will have a major attribute, and possibly a minor attribute as well. So I'm going to create a page for exercises of each time of major attribute. These will follow the same pattern of Activity/Mission/Bonus that I've created for the skills. For example, achieving a weight of 200 lbs. would be a mission in Constitution exercises, and a strength bonus might be awarded for a week in which I jog daily.

The entire point of this website is to offer a concrete, quantitative motivation for developing myself. Although I prefer to do it through skills, sometimes there's no real skill involved, only an attribute, and I think exercises are the way to capture this.

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