As the ugly spectacle of January 6, 2021, unfurled around them, many people felt paralyzed by the chaos. Not Arnold Schwarzenegger. As he writes in his slightly inexplicable new self-help book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, he knew that one thing—and one thing alone—could help him process the endless mania of that day: his Jacuzzi.
“There’s something about the hot water and the steam, about the hum of the jets and the rush of the bubbles,” he writes of his Jacuzzi. “It’s where I do some of my best thinking.” And, submerged in his hot tub that evening, Schwarzenegger formed a response in his mind. “I could see myself sitting behind my desk,” he explains, “with the sword from Conan the Barbarian in my hands.”
