081: A.J. Jacobs | Journalist and Human Test Subject

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Human guinea pig and journalist A.J. Jacobs has lived according Old Testament rules, outsourced his entire life, and subjected himself to every diet and fitness program he could find to he could to see what he could learn. Besides the more obvious lessons, like sheep don’t do well in New York apartments and long beards are itchy, he gained valuable takeaways that he shares in his books which include “The Year of Living Biblically,” “Drop Dead Healthy.” He provides a whole other angle to the trope, “fake it til you make it.” Through his interesting experiments Jacobs proves that some of the best adventures can be conjured up in the mind.

Lessons:
1. Expressing gratitude for everything develops awareness of just how many things we have to be thankful for.
2. It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking then to think your way into a new way of acting.
3. In terms of genealogy, we are all one large extended family, so be kind.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast. We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it.
0:12.0	Spartans, welcome back to Pittsfield, and I have with me as always the wonderful Colonel
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0:25.0	And see, that's it for La La la or something.
0:29.0	And all of our wonderful helpers.
0:30.0	So today we get to meet A Jacobs. He's a best-selling
0:35.1	author and he's done some super cool things like I don't know if you guys have
0:38.2	ever wanted to memorize an Encyclopedia or you know read the Bible and try to emulate that in your daily life I mean I have
0:45.8	in a tent on Joe's Mountain always you did but not to the level he but not to the level
0:50.4	I mean yeah where he tracked down an adulterer in the park in stoned them and
0:53.6	stoned them you I've never seen you stone an adulterer you don't see everything
0:57.4	on show okay so let's see what else a jay jacups shall do we are here in New York for Spartan Up Podcast with A.J. aka the human
1:09.0	guinea pig. He also contributes to NPR, writer for Esquire, super author.
1:14.4	I like that.
1:15.4	How many books have you written?
1:16.4	I've written four major books and a bunch of little minor ones.
1:20.4	Nice.
1:21.4	And any major motion picture yet?
1:24.0	I have, they've all been optioned, but they have none of them have actually made the screen.
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