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A.J. Jacobs

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“Yeah, exactly. You are wives. You are cousins with your spouse. But yeah, now, and it's being produced by Gimlet, who did start up, which I'm sure, because your friends with Krishaka. And so, yeah, startup, which is...”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's a podcast. I'm very excited about it. It's called Twice Removed. And then we go through their family history and find the most interesting inspirational stories and then talk about those. And then at the end, we introduce them to a cousin they didn't know they had. So it's sort of this surprise ending. And it could be someone that their hero maybe, their mentor. It could be an ex-girlfriend. It could be anyone. We haven't done that yet.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like Susan Sontag's farts or whatever. And I was like, you got to put that out. Like that would be the most awesome album”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I love that. Well, I will tell you when I recorded my audiobook, I apparently had a very active stomach. And so it was growling a lot. So I had to do a lot of retakes and I was apologizing to the producers. And they said, no, no, everyone that happens, everyone. And they, in fact, had a file of all these famous authors like body sounds.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Until for another like three years, this will work, and then everyone will realize, oh wait, everyone's cousins. But I highly recommend it as a strategy for now.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, from AJ, your distant cousin. I wanted to, for my book about it, I wanted to interview George H.W. Bush. So I emailed his chief of staff and I was like, you know, and she said, oh, he's not doing interviews. And I said, well, but I am a cousin. She's like, oh, well, you're a cousin. I guess we can make an exception. I was able to go down and interview him.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or non Titans, but it is, it's like. The greatest social network ever. It's like LinkedIn on steroids because I was trying, I threw an event of trying to hold the biggest family reunion ever and I needed publicity. So I would find a reporter or a TV producer. I would figure out how I was related to them. I would send them an email and say, listen, this may sound weird, but you are my seventh cousin three times removes husband's son. So we're family. Would you do a favor for a cousin and write about my project? And I'd say, you know, 20% of the time they were freaked out and stopped stalking me. But 80% of the time they were intrigued. They're like, really? We're cousin? Oh, that's so interesting. And I got more publicity that way than anything.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of people are working on the same big family tree. So I'm on this tree, which now has a hundred million people. And one of the fun things that will take up like a week of your life is you can figure out how you're related to almost anyone else like Barack Obama, for instance, this is true, is my fifth great aunt husband's brother's wife's seventh great nephew. So we're pretty close. I'm sure when he's out of office soon, he'll be hanging with me. So I loved this idea. It's like six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but everyone is Kevin Bacon. And I became entranced and I decided this is my next book. And for your listeners, actually, it has very practical implications because”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Connections. But this came about because a couple of years ago I was at my desk and I got an email from a guy and he said, you don't know me, but I'm your 12th cousin. And I thought, okay, next comes, he's going to say, please wire $10,000 to my Nigerian bank account. But he didn't. And I looked into it more, and he's one of those group people, they're researchers and scientists and geneticists who are building a family tree. The biggest family tree ever, the biggest possible family tree ever, of every human on earth, connecting everyone on earth in one family tree. And I was like, that is a bold, crazy idea. I love it. So that's how I dove into it. And it's two ways you do it with DNA, but one way is on the internet where you almost a Wikipedia-like model where thousands, millions.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Slapping. It's true. Well, genealogy is a thing. Yeah, I try not to use that word. I used to say family history. That sounds better.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And making a note of that because I've never talked about this, but when I'm writing and I write something that I think might be funny, I can tell there's sort of a little ping in the back of my head, like a little dopamine rush. Yeah. And yeah, I do try to pay attention to that. That's so interesting. I never verbalized it. And then just the idea, I do love, like I think you do, is taking an idea and just pushing it to its logical extreme, just reductio ad absurdum. So when I first read about outsourcing and I was like, well, this is cool. How can I push this to the extreme? How can I outsource every single thing in the world? And that's how I came up with the idea for. Those folks”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If it makes me laugh, I once talked to a daily show writer about his writing process, and he said one of the most important things to him was that he could surprise himself while he was writing. And I loved that idea, just being able to surprise yourself. And I feel that same way about big ideas, you have to, like when you come up with the idea, you'd be like, oh.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, there was the Kama Sutra, which my wife. Put the Kavash on. I think the answer, maybe not the most surprising, but I have to be totally passionate about it because it can't just be something that I think will be popular. It has to be something that I am super excited about. Because like you know, I commit to these things and maybe not to the level of Tim Ferris, but I go in. I go in hard.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And actually, that brings to mind when I was researching the Bible, there is a line in the Bible where God says because of Eve eating the apple, a woman shall have pain in childbirth. When anesthesia for childbirth was first introduced, there were some super religious people who were like, oh no, we can't have that. Women have to suffer. And so thank God my wife, she was like, give me that drug. Give it to me now. There was no chance. She was going to do it naturally.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely, and on that theme, you can also Google Louis CK on Conan. I think it's something like everything is great and everyone's miserable, which is.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, it was crazy. Yeah, this one woman wrote one and it was just, you know, I couldn't sleep for days. Even when I'm going to the hospital for a procedure, I'm like, all right, at least we got anesthesia. So it has made my life better, this idea”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I oh, you know what else to be thankful if you ever are feeling down, I would Google the words surgery without anesthesia and read the first person accounts of people who had surgery and it is just, oh my God, it is just.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so the idea was every month I would take a different topic and show how horrible life used to be and how grateful we should be, you know, not all of us. There are still people in other countries and even in our country living in horrible conditions. But if you're lucky enough, we live in by far the best times. And there's so many examples. The first one I think was on medicine and the one that the one I talked about in the first paragraph, I believe, was the smoke enema, the tobacco enema, which is, you know, the phrase blow smoke up your ass. Yeah. Like that was a literal thing. It came because they would have a hose and a pump and they would shoot tobacco up your butt because they believed that it was good for your stomach and good for your health.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, and I totally believe it. I can't remember. I wanted to call it the good old days sucked, but I don't think it ended up being called that. But the premise was we have this nostalgia.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's so interesting That's similar to because he had put it up as a Facebook update, like as a joke. He said, I'm going to write a book called Go After Sleep. And people are like, you should do that. So the idea of sharing and being out there with your ideas, that's been a big change in my career.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, is that insane? The level of delusion there? Like, who cares? And now I feel telling people my ideas at the positives outweigh the negatives that you meet people who are interesting, who can help you or expand the idea. I don't know if you know Adam Monsbach who wrote Go the, I don't know, are you allowed? Do you want the E on this or no? Go the F to sleep.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's hilarious. I didn't realize that. But I love the idea of being generous with your ideas because when I first started my career, I was so paranoid. I wouldn't, people say, what are you working on? Oh, I can't tell you. Even though it was like, you know, it was probably some lame thing that no one's going to steal. And if they did steal it, so what? It's all about execution. So this is a crazy story. I'm much older than you. So when I very first started, I got out of college. There were still libraries. And that's where you would go to research things. And I was doing a book on, it was like a joke book on the eerie similarities between Jesus and Elvis because Elvis had said that he believed he was the second coming. And I was so paranoid that I went to the two different libraries. So I went to one to get books about Elvis and one to get books.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. Can I just say one thing about Neil Strauss that I love is that he is so generous with his ideas. And this is something I've come around to. You know, he gave me two or three book ideas I never pursued them, but they're good book ideas like he had one where he said you should just, you know what? It's kind of similar to your podcast. You should find the best, the Michael Jordan of everything and learn their secrets and then write a book. It's kind of tool for Titan.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's interesting. I was trying to apply it to my own marriage to see if I lined up. And I think actually 70, 30 is about where I am. Maybe 65, 35. I don't know, different people would say lower.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love. And that there are a couple of things that come to mind, phrases like I've heard you can be right or you can be married. But not both, which I think is a good one. And then I asked some 80 year old guy who would have been married for 50 years what his secret is. And he said, tooth marks on the tongue. That's the secret to a happy marriage. Just bite your tongue. Bite it, bite, a bite it.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One sense, but it's also very revelatory, and I got to see, you know, like the little liquid soap thing. I just figured. They refilled themselves. It was like self-cleaning oven or something, but. I was like, oh yeah, someone has to do that. So be aware of how much the other person is doing, even if you don't see it. It's the whatever bias. You're not seeing it, so you're not aware of it. Can I just pop that back at you and ask you what you would suggest to someone going into a relationship?”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Another one is from my wife's stepdad who died recently, but he said when we were getting married, I thought he gave very good advice. He said, you both think going to think that you're doing like 70% of the work in the marriage. And you're both wrong, you know? So just be aware of how much the other person is doing and you're taking for granted. And for one of my experiments, the one I said where I tried to be the best husband, I was one of the things we did was we wrote a list of everything she does in our lives around the house and everything I do. I honestly thought it was going to be about 50-50. And it was like 80 her and 20 me. So it was a very humbling experience. It was in one sense terrible because now she realizes too how little I did. So it's made my life worse.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, a couple of things come to mind. One is, you know, the cliche, don't go to bed angry. I fully disagree with that. I go to bed angry all the time and I find it so helpful because my wife gets cranky at night if I try to argue it out with her. She would be furious. Neither of us would get sleep. It would be a disaster. You go to sleep, you wake up in the morning, you have a fresh perspective. You can talk about it rationally. And I do that with my kids too. Like we start to get an argument. I say, you know what? Let's cool down. Let's think about this. I'm not forgetting about this argument, but let's reconvene in a few hours. So I actually, I do like that. So don't do go to bed angry is my first suggestion.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it's not, he didn't villainize them. And anyway, I thought that that was fantastic. So just this idea of being a mentor gives so much pleasure, I think. In one way, it's a waste of time, but in another way, it's just, and it's also from a very practical point of view, it's paid off. Like now he's so much smarter than me and more connected with the internet that he can help me.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's like, this is amazing. This is like an alternate universe. I live in a bubble. I want to, what if I transfer it from Brown, the most liberal college in the United States, to Liberty, which is one of the most conservative, where you can't watch an R-rated movie, you get in trouble for, you can't like holding hands with someone of the opposite sex is... For voting, so I was like, that's an interesting idea. And I encouraged them to write a proposal and I helped them a bit and hooked him up with an agent. And he did it. And he went and got the book contract, wrote a great book, which is great, not just because it's interesting, but because it's very...”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that I was like, you know, I was already impressed. And at the time, I was trying to follow all the rules of the Bible. And the Bible actually, in the Old Testament, slavery is fine. So I was really struggling with how do I deal with that in my life? Because obviously slavery, not so fine, not so legal, thank God. So I said, the closest thing to slavery in my life is an internship. So if you can come and be my intern and let me call you my biblical slave, then let's do it. So he's like, I'm in. And he was great, so proactive. And then as a thank you, I took him on one of the trips I made for that book where I was going around trying to see how different people interpreted the Bible literally. And I took him to Jerry Falwell's church. And he was fashionable.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yes. Well, this is when I was writing the Bible. And I sent you this in the context of just the joy of being a mentor. And I can say that because this guy, my mentee, my protege, has far surpassed me in success. His name is Kevin Roos, and he was a writer for the New York Times and New York magazine. Now he's at Fusion, and he's written a couple of great books. I met him because I was writing my book on the Bible. He was a freshman at my alma mater, Brown University, and he wrote me a very funny letter saying he wanted to be a writer. So immediately that's a good lesson, like just the hut spot, I call it a strategic hutzpah, just writing out of the blue, instead of going through alumni relations, he just wrote me out of the blue. I want to be a writer. I'll work for you for free while I'm ready.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I find it very useful. I mean, you've got to be careful not to crush someone's ego so they curl up in a fetal position. So it's a fine line. But good natured sticks, I think, you know, like soft maybe, you know, nerf sticks, I think, are incredibly helpful.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I was Me, I was doing the health book and I was eating all of these dried mangoes because they sort of have the veneer of health because they're fruit, but really they're just sugar. They're just so much sugar. So I knew I had to quit. So I arranged it. I said to my wife, if I eat another dried mango, then I am instructing you now. You have to do this. You have to send a $100 check to the KKK. And it was so effective. It was crazy because just the thought of that check going out made me physically ill. And I was able to quit cold turkey. And he talks about people smoking use this strategy. And yeah, have you ever tried it?”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, let's talk about the KK, which I do not support just to get that out there right up front. But I've watched many of your talks and in a couple of them you mentioned that very flattering. Thank you. This is an idea by that same Yale professor. And his idea was if you want to quit something or you want to stop doing a terrible behavior, then you can blackmail yourself.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I still do love treadmill desks. I made my own. I didn't buy the fancy one, but I do find it energizing. And I only walk like one and a half, two miles per hour when I'm writing or answering emails. But I find if I'm sitting in front of a computer, I am tempted to just rest my head on the spacebar and fall asleep. You can't do that when you're on a treadmill. So I do like that. And I also still like the competition. Some people are not motivated by this, but I am getting friends making sure that I get to 10,000 steps or my friends can mock me, that they can see. There's like a leaderboard and that they can.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I had that same experience with photos. I had a screensaver that was a photo of my family totally tuned it out after three days. So I started rotating photos to remind myself, oh yeah, we did do a fun thing there. And, you know, it's not all tantrums. Tantrums.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that it pops up every couple of days. And then, oh yeah, I should. But you're totally right. We are so good at tuning things out that have been there.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love that. And I have the exact same thing. Like if you leave it in the same place, you're going to forget about what I do is I make it part of my rotating screensaver so that.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Remember, treat me like you would treat a friend and, you know, just don't eat that fourth oatmeal cookie, you know, just get on that treadmill. So I find that very inspiring and motivating.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, this was, I learned this while doing the health book. And the idea was, I think it was a Yale professor, I forget his name, but Egonomics, I think is what he called it. And the idea was when they do experiments and they remind people that they are going to be around in 20 years, people make more responsible decisions. Like financially, they invest more in their 401k. And also health-wise, they act more responsibly. So I thought this was fascinating. So I took it and I took just a selfie and I digitally aged it on one of those apps. So I now look, I've got this weird, I look like I have a skin disease, but it's me at like 82. And I printed it out and put it over my desk. And that older AJ is always looking down and saying, you know, treat me way.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Skype breakfast, whatever you want. And I did it once with this guy who was tech savvy, and he had a background of us in a cafe in Paris. So it was very nice.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, and it is interesting. Yeah, another thing that I do is, and some people don't approve of this. You may not, but if I'm totally swamped and someone asks me out to lunch, then I say, what would you think about a Skype lunch where we both order in food and we have lunch and we get to talk to each other, we get to see each other, but we don't have to schlep. We don't have to waste time. We don't have to get ask the waiter for the check. And, you know, I'd say 30% of people are offended, but 70% are willing to try. And I found it very useful.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I need your advice on that. I am terrible. That and that is the truth. So maybe that's my best answer. But yeah, it's a tough one.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But so what I have kept from that is I. I try to do what I call radical sustainable honesty or positive radical honesty because I don't need to tell people I'm staring at your mole. Like that just doesn't help the world, I think. But for instance, one of the things I did was when I was doing that, I would be thinking, you know what? I really like that boss of mine when I was 22 at the small newspaper. He had a very nice influence on me. Let me call him up and thank him. So I would call him out of the blue. And it was very awkward because men are not supposed to express emotions like that. But I would tell him how much he meant to me. And it made me feel so much better. And I hope, I think it made him feel better. And so I feel that that's something I've tried to keep. If I have a positive thought, then even if it's embarrassing or weird, then I will...”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. And they said, you know, the rejection rate was like 95%. But if you're okay with that, then 5% of the women were like, hmm, interesting.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I don't have time to see my own friend. And they were just looked at me aghast. And my wife, of course, was furious. And I mean, the one thing is we never did see them again. So in that way, it was effective. But I felt terrible and I still feel, you know, it was a total, terrible thing to say. So there was that. But it did affect me in that I still, I'm not radically honest because he's crazy. He's also, you know, if you see a beautiful woman on the street, you say, hello, I'm very attracted to you. I would like to sleep with you, which I got weirdly a lot of people, you know, 20 something guys saying they were using that as like...”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Despite the challenges. So I did it, and oh my God, it was the worst month of my life in many ways. In some ways it was wonderful, liberating, terrific. In other ways, it was just dreadful. And to give you one of the dreadful ones, there was like we would go to a restaurant and we would see my wife, friends of my wife's that she hadn't seen since college. And they said, oh, we should all get together and have a play date with our kids. And I had to say what was on my brain, which was. You guys seem nice, but I have no interest in ever seeing you again.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, thank you. Yeah, this piece came about because I read about this guy in Virginia, a psychologist named Brad Blanton. Fantastic character, one of the greatest interviews of my life. And he believes that you should never lie, but he goes further. He says, whatever's on your brain should come out of your mouth. No filter like Jim Carrey and liar, liar. So it is insane. And I was like, well, let me try this and see what happens. How maybe he's right. Maybe it will make my life better.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No. Well, and to be radically honest, thank you. You tweeted about it a few weeks ago. And as per usual, your endorsement gets me for readers in one tweet than I get from months trying to do publicity.”
2016-12-24 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT