A.J. Jacobs: Habits, Health, and Human Connection [GREATEST HITS WEEK]

Afford Anything

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Esquire Magazine editor-at-large and bestselling author A.J. Jacobs joins the show to discuss his experimental approach to life. Jacobs, whose TED Talks have been viewed more than 3 million times, shares best practices around motivation, habits, confidence, boosting happiness, and optimizing creativity. In this episode: -- Discover the benefits that come from frequently changing your habits -- Learn why "fake it 'til you become it" is A.J.'s secret weapon for habit development. -- Explore how extreme gratitude can transform your mindset. -- Hear a cautionary tale of healthy living gone wrong. -- Learn how to make any career or business connection by unearthing the way in which you're distant cousins (as everyone on earth is, at most, roughly 70th cousins) Plus, hear a hilarious story about Jacobs revealing his entire sexual history to actress Scarlett Johansson. This episode originally aired in 2017. We're sharing this as part of GREATEST HITS WEEK, a 5-day series in which we're sharing 5 episodes, across 5 days, that we produced during the earliest years of the Afford Anything podcast. You may have missed it then; enjoy it now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast. Next week we're airing episode 500. In honor of that, we are
0:06.4	airing a special five-day series in which we look back on the earliest days of this
0:11.5	podcast. In case you missed it, we air five of our
0:15.5	greatest hits. So five episodes in five days in honor of episode 500. Today is
0:22.0	day four of five And today we're sharing an interview with A.J. Jacobs, the editor at large of Esquire magazine,
0:29.7	the author of multiple New York Times best-selling books and whose three TED Talks have
0:34.4	collectively garnered more than 3 million views. In this interview, A.J. Jacobs
0:39.8	describes how he manages his motivation and habits.
0:43.8	He shares some of the behavioral tactics that have come from the research that he's done for
0:48.6	stories at Esquire magazine, including acting in a certain way until your mind catches up and finding the
0:55.6	initial momentum to act your way into a new mode of thinking. This interview
1:00.7	originally aired in 2017.
1:03.2	Back then, our audience was much smaller.
1:05.5	So you might not have caught it the first time it aired,
1:08.4	which is why this week, Greatest Hits Week,
1:12.0	we are pulling it out of our early days archives to share it with you.
1:17.0	Please note, while there is no profanity in this interview, we do discuss certain adult topics so if you're listening with
1:24.4	kids in the car please be aware that there are certain elements of this
1:27.1	interview that are not totally kids safe so please enjoy this interview with
1:30.6	A. J. Jacobs which originally aired in 2017.
1:34.0	Hey Cousin AJ!
1:40.0	Hello cousin, how are you?
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