37 AJ Jacobs: Experiments in Lifestyle, Fitness, and Self Improvement
The School of Greatness
I Want to Be the Smartest Person in the World
"I didn't actually want to become the smartest, but I certainly wanted to get better from where I was," he says. He read for eight hours a day and drove his wife crazy with all of her extraneous facts. "She started to find me $1 for every irrelevant fact I inserted in conversation."
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