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"I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. I tried the raw food vegan diet. And I tried the calorie restriction diet, which is the idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time. Whether or not you want to, of course, is the idea."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Meat #Calories #Courses
"Behavior shapes emotions."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Behavior #Emotion #Shapes
"I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus)."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Delicious #Technique #Honey
"My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Germs #Nice #Microbes
"The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Keys #Self #Healthy
"If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”"
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Starbucks #Mets #Walks
"In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Sin #Trying #Committed
"Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#People #Sitting #World
"There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Passionate #Sandwiches #Chewing
"I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Horrible #Doughnut #Deen
"When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#People #Apocalyptic #Just One
"I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Good Things #Littles
"Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Asks #Locked #World
"I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Structure #Share #Focus
"There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one"
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Unconditional Love #Rationality #Love Is
"I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset - and sandals - of my forefathers."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Sandals #Mindset #Forefathers
"I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#This World #World #Clouds
"Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Insight #Mistake #Should
"This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Feels #Rabbi #Sanctuary
"Its sort of my job to feel good."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Feels #Feel Good #Jobs
"The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Four #Trying #Three
"Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Emotion #Useless #Wasting Time
"Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Unconditional Love #Love Is #Powerful
"There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I decided to take advantage of that and eat a cricket. It was chocolate-covered, and I'm not sure that's the way they were served in Moses' time. But this was a rule that seemed crazy on the outside, then actually turned out to be pragmatic and compassionate."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Cricket #Restriction #Advantage
"I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Found #Gratefulness
"One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Interesting Things #Interesting #Testament
"Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness."
--- A. J. Jacobs
#Twins #Engines #Life Decision

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