Hello friends, welcome back to Modern Wisdom. My guest today is James Altature. Part

one of this conversation was earlier in the week, but if you're just tuning into this,

it will make sense, it stands on its own merits as well. Today we are talking about how to

conduct experiments in your own life. Me and James kind of got onto how he deploys the

ideas that he has on a very regular basis, and he just kind of jumps in feet first. So

we talk about him practicing stand-up comedy on the subway train in New York. We talk about how

Ryan Holiday managed to become one of the biggest writers on the planet by essentially helping

Robert Green to write books. I just love the way that James comes across with such a fearlessness

to do things in life. He really overcomes that inertia and that natural laziness that we all have.

Loads to take away from today. The first ever two part of Modern Wisdom, which is my version of

a little life experiment this week. James, you're a legend man. Thanks so much for coming on.

Please welcome the wise and wonderful James Altature.

Right, so, well, we were talking about date night, we were talking about ideas. What did I

have in my head? That was it. That was it, cool. One of the things that I was talking about recently

was with an ex-Marines officer from the UK and he was talking about his time over in Afghanistan,

and he was a Somali pirate hunter. Somali pirate hunter was like his second career after he left

left work in Afghanistan. He was talking about just how different life is out there, and he said

he was talking about singing the praises of travel and new experiences. What you've suggested to

there about the idea generation and how important it is is you don't really know what you like

until you try to do something. Our sample size, the sample size of experiences that we're working

with is such a fraction of the total potential number of experiences that you could have as a human.

Unless you try something, how do you know whether you do or don't like it?

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