Alternative hypothesis: maybe what expands your time horizon is not exercise and meditation per se, but the fact that you are doing several different things (work, meditation, exercise), instead of doing the same thing over and over again (work). It probably also helps that the different activities use different muscles, so that they feel completely different.
This hypothesis predicts that a combination of e.g. work, walking, and painting, could provide similar benefits compared to work only.
Alternative hypothesis: maybe what expands your time horizon is not exercise and meditation per se, but the fact that you are doing several different things (work, meditation, exercise), instead of doing the same thing over and over again (work). It probably also helps that the different activities use different muscles, so that they feel completely different.
This hypothesis predicts that a combination of e.g. work, walking, and painting, could provide similar benefits compared to work only.
Well, my working is often pretty varied, while my “being distracted” is pretty monotonous (watching youtube clips), so I don’t think it is this one.