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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.

A. J. Jacobs

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It’s just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it’ll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It’s like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.
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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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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.
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I don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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