Is Your Behavior Affecting Your Thoughts?

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i was in central park, and i was really getting into it. A man came up to me and said, why are you dressed like that? And i said, well, i'm trying to follow all the rules of the bible. He grabbed the pebbles out of my hand and threw them at me. So an i for an eye, i threw one back at him. I feel lucky i escaped. But ye, to to the bigger point, i definitely took away lots of things, tat changed my life. One would be gratitude. There's a lot in the bible about gratitude. It inspired me to write another book that came out a couple of years ago called thanks

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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