A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs
Arnold Stephen "A. J." Jacobs, Jr.is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is the editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 March 1968
CountryUnited States of America
python body goats
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
moving sitting research
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.
years europe organization
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
real fighting years
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
motivation inspiration drunk
More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
baby lying thinking
The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
coffee self guy
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.”
people sitting world
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
book moving recipes
Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
mistake should insight
Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
names causes littles
I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
jobs feel-good feels
Its sort of my job to feel good.
nice careers rejection
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.
trying thankfulness four
The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.