A.J. Jacobs, who has an upcoming book, The Year of Living Constitutionally, He's a fascinating writer.

He basically, instead of just doing research on a topic,

like, oh, I'm going to do research on the Constitution.

I'm going to do a research on living healthy.

I'm going to do a research on the Bible.

Instead of just researching

something and writing a book which I consider to be kind of boring he has a completely

different way of exploring a topic and it turns out and not by accident it turns out that this is the formula

writing a best-selling millions of copies kind of book and it's an interesting way to

live life and what I mean is AJ really of year of living biblically, he lived for a year, literally word by word, as the

Bible would suggest he lives. Well I'll let AJ describe and we talk about it in

this episode, but in the year of living

constitutionally which is about to come out he lives the life of someone around in

1790 living the Constitution word for word like applying to be a pirate with the Congress

something which was in Article 1 of the Constitution if you didn't happen to know and

meanwhile other books he's had is,

like he, my life as an experiment

where everything was an experiment.

So he, for instance, he outsourced arguments

with his wife to an outsourcing agency in India.

So this turns out to be not only a fascinating way to live a very curious and adventurous life,

but again, as I said earlier, it turns out to be a great formula

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