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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.

A. J. Jacobs

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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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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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There’s something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
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I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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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 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.
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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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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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After a while, if you’re committed, you start to believe in the things in which you’re praying. It’s just cognitive dissonance. You can’t live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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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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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 thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing – but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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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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