The Tim Ferriss Show

By Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

#211: A.J. Jacobs: Self-Experimenter Extraordinaire

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Published December 24, 2016 1:18pm

A.J. Jacobs (@ajjacobs) is a kindred guinea pig of self-experimentation who chronicles his shenanigans in books that seem to keep winding up as New York Times best sellers. The Know-It-All was about his quest to learn everything in the world. In The Year of Living Biblically, he tried to follow all the rules of the Bible as literally as possible. Drop Dead Healthy followed his well- (and ill-) advised experiments to become the healthiest person alive. My Life as an Experiment is about exactly what it sounds like, and It's All Relative -- which will be out in 2017...

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