Format:
Book
Title:
The guinea pig diaries : my life as an experiment / A.J. Jacobs.
Author:
Jacobs, A. J., 1968-
Call Number:
814 Jacobs
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2009.
Description:
xiv, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
A.J. explores the big issues of our time--happiness, dating, morality, marriage--by immersing himself in eye-opening situations. In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provides readers with equal parts insight and humor. (And drives his patient wife, Julie, to the brink of insanity.) Among the many adventures: He outsources his life to a team of people in Bangalore, India. He spends a month practicing Radical Honesty, in which you say what's on your mind. He goes to the Academy Awards disguised as a movie star, to understand the strange and warping effects of fame. He commits himself to ultimate rationality, using cutting-edge science to make the best decisions possible. He attempts to follow George Washington's rules of life. And, for a month, he followed his wife's every whim.--From publisher description.
Subjects:
Conduct of life -- Humor.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Humor.
Other Title:
My life as an experiment
Contents:
My life as a beautiful woman -- My outsourced life -- I think you're fat -- 240 minutes of fame -- The rationality project -- The truth about nakedness -- What would George Washington do? -- The unitasker -- Whipped.
ISBN:
9781416599067
1416599061