Introduction

You feel it in your butt first – that numbing sensation (you called it itchy-butt in grade school), almost like pins and needles . It’s nearly paralyzing- the way your cheeks just seem to have lost all blood flow during the last few hours. And now it’s time to pack up and head out and your back’s aching – especially that area right beneath your right shoulder blade, and your lower back is as tense as your neck – which is to say, you do not have a pleasant feeling as you uncrinkle yourself out of your chair. Your legs barely obey your brain’s demands to move one in front of the other and you arch your back upward, bringing your shoulders as close as you can to touching and hear the satisfying crackle of your bones snapping back into place.

And (don’t shoot the messenger) but that’s not even the worst part. The worst part is what it’s doing to your brain.

Cubicles are where brains go to die and every day you’re marching yours to its electric chair and willingly sitting down.

Here’s the kicker: You’re going to do it to yourself again tomorrow. And you’ll be repeating it ad infinitum for the foreseeable future.

Melodramatic? Hardly.

Is it a problem you can solve? Absolutely- if you find the courage to rise up.