Those are just some of the questions human guinea pig A.J. Jacobs spends his life trying to answer. An author and journalist, he regularly immerses himself into extreme social experiments to understand the world better (and then usually writes a book about it). And this conversation does not disappoint -- we explore his discoveries on everything from love and relationships, competitive puzzling, US politics, health... one of my favourite conversations so far!

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:06 - Immersions

00:05:47 - Maximizing Health

00:11:14 - Living Biblically

00:19:17 - Living Constitutionally

00:49:50 - Gratitude Experiment

00:53:03 - Extreme Outsourcing

00:55:31 - Relationship Stuff

01:01:13 - Radical Honesty

01:10:43 - Choosing Projects

01:17:43 - Tips for Building Habits

01:22:51 - The Power of Puzzles

01:29:19 - Relationship with Competition

♾️ AJ's Books

https://ajjacobs.com/books/

♾️ The Year of Living Constitutionally https://ajjacobs.com/books/the-year-of-living-constitutionally/

♾️ Cochrane Report

https://www.cochrane.org/

♾️ Cold Takes Blog

https://www.cold-takes.com/

♾️ The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/49081/the-4-hour-workweek-expanded-and-updated-by-timothy-ferriss/

♾️ The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555240/the-scout-mindset-by-julia-galef/

♾️ Stickk.com

https://www.stickk.com/

♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree

♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei

♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt

Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.