The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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From that FAQ:
I consider this a point against the helmet. I want to inculcate a sense of reasonable decision making and risk assessment, not the pure safetyism of donning a helmet literally every time you're biking.
Personally, I wear a helmet when I'm road biking because I'm going to go fast enough and ride enough miles that there's a non-trivial chance of having a nasty wreck at some point. On the flip side, I never wear a helmet when I'm going a couple miles on a hybrid because I'm not going fast and there's very little chance of me just randomly falling down while tootling along a bike path at 13 MPH. I skip the helmet there for the same reason that I don't wear a helmet in the car or while running. I also just think helmets look incredibly dorky when worn with street clothes, but YMMV there. I have no real interest in encouraging other people to wear helmets more or less often than me, I think people should wear them in accordance with their own risk assessment and personal comfort.
I would want the same flexibility for a young cyclist rather than the obsessive safety of being scared to pedal a couple blocks without getting a helmet.
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