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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
A. J. Jacobs
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A. J. Jacobs
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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New York City
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If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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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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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
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I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. I tried the raw food vegan diet. And I tried the calorie restriction diet, which is the idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time. Whether or not you want to, of course, is the idea.
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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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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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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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Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.
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