![]() I actually think everyone should try experimenting with their lives. I have learned about all these distant cousins, including Barack Obama, who is literally my fifth great aunt’s husband’s brother’s wife’s seventh great nephew. My latest project, I’m helping to build a family tree of the entire world. I did stone adulterers, although I used very small stones, like pebble-sized, so no one got hurt. I also did an experiment where I tried to follow all the rules of the Bible for a year. I feel very lucky that I’m still married and I still have a job, because you can’t believe the number of lies that we tell on a daily basis. That was one of the worst months of my life. I did one experiment called radical honesty, the idea that whatever is on your brain should come out of your mouth, no filter. I have no problem with the rule, but I would have put it a little bit lower, like 85, 86. The second rule in this list is, do not adjust your private parts in public, solid rule. Some of them you might expect, like honor your elders, others not so expected. One I did was called, what would George Washington do? I followed the list of 110 rules of life that the father of our country wrote when he was a young man. I have done dozens of experiments over the years. And what I like to do is just dive into my topics, totally immerse myself, and change my lifestyle. I have been called the human guinea pig, and I don’t mind. I didn’t make that up, by the way, but I love it. It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting. If you pretend to be a little bit of a better person, you actually become a better person. JACOBS, Author, “My Life as an Experiment: One Man’s Humble Quest to Improve Himself”: One of the secrets I have learned is self-deception. He explains his unique brand of immersive journalism.Ī.J. Jacobs, an editor at “Esquire” and the author of several books, including “My Life as an Experiment: One Man’s Humble Quest to Improve Himself.” HARI SREENIVASAN: And now another in our Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask interesting people to describe their passion.
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