How Experiments Will Change Your Life

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Management, Mental Health, Personal Development, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 269 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What’s all this fuss about experiments? What’s so great about them, and how does one even go about it? Join Joe and Brett for a deep dive on experiments! Hear about Joe’s early experiences that led him to place experimentation at the core of his self-exploration work and what makes them so important to the work we do at AOA. - The characteristics of effective experiments - Why it’s more effective to approach them from a playful perspective - How to iterate effectively - Pitfalls to watch out for Plus, learn about some experiments that Brett and Joe are running right before your eyes! Come along for a fun chat about how to, ultimately, have more fun in life. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Experiments in Life 03:00 The Philosophy of Experimentation 06:00 The Role of Experiments in Self-Discovery 09:04 Characteristics of Effective Experiments 12:14 Mindset for Running Experiments 15:05 Identifying Areas for Experimentation 18:01 Iterating and Evolving Experiments 20:53 Trusting the Process of Experimentation 23:55 Real-Life Applications of Experiments

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everybody. I'm Brett Kistler.
0:09.0	And I'm Joe Hudson.
0:10.1	And this is the art of accomplishment, where we explore living a life you want with enjoyment
0:14.5	and ease.
0:15.3	Welcome, everybody.
0:16.4	So today we're going to talk about a modality for self-discovery that you can use to change
0:20.4	your life.
0:21.1	Yeah, it's experiments. It's how to set up little tests and explorations in your life
0:27.5	that will let you understand yourself far better and know how you can be more authentic and
0:32.6	more successful in your life. And they are, they're really fun and they also super effective. One of my
0:39.9	favorite things and a huge part of my entire growth process has been running experiments.
0:45.9	Yeah. Anyone who's been listening to the podcast for a while or who's done any of our work has
0:49.6	seen how experiments are worked into our courses and are worked into all the ways that we that we
0:56.1	explore ourselves in in the art of accomplishment. And so I'd like to start by just talking about
1:00.9	how did you come to the way, the philosophy of experimentation that we, that we use in this work.
1:10.6	Yeah. So for me, it was just that I had really bad authority issues.
1:15.1	That's really the deal.
1:17.2	So if you go back into my timeline, if you go back when I was like in my 20s and I was
1:23.6	just getting into this kind of work and transformation, Man, I just, there was no way I was
1:30.7	going to listen to anybody. My dad was an authority that was not something to trust. And so I didn't
1:36.5	trust authority at all. I projected my dad onto every authority figure. And so I would be looking at
1:42.6	a book from, say, Adi Ashante, and I would switch the book over
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