How Did You Get Any Wisdom Out of Living That Way?

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i followed the hundreds of rules in the bible as literally as possible to see what made my life better. And so i followed the ten commandments, but i also, the bible says you can't shave the corners of your beard. But just take some time and think about that, ladies and gentlemen, and we'll see how good a puzzler you are later on in the episode. It was quite an adventure, ye. I mean, very entertaining to read too. You seem like oa crazy person doing this. Of course. Thank you.

For the last 25 years, writer A.J. Jacobs has attempted to live his life as a human guinea pig.

“I’ve engaged in a series of experiments on my mind and body,” he says, “some of which have been fruitful, some humiliating failures. I’ve tried to understand the world by immersing myself in extraordinary circumstances.”

His book “The Know-It-All” chronicled his experience reading the encyclopedia from cover to cover. To write “The Year of Living Biblically,” he followed every commandment in the Old Testament, including the edicts stone adulterers and avoid shaving the corners of your beard. Now A.J. is back with a new immersive memoir, “The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life.”

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