#588: A.J. Jacobs — How to Be Less Furious and More Curious

Brought to you by  LinkedIn Jobs  recruitment platform with 770M+ users ,  Helix Sleep  premium mattresses ,  and   Headspace  easy-to-use app   with guided meditations . A.J. Jacobs  (@ajjacobs) is a bestselling author, journalist, and human guinea pig. He has written four  New York Times  bestsellers, including  The Year of Living Biblically  (for which he followed all the rules of the Bible as literally as possible) and  Thanks a Thousand  (for which he went around the world and thanked every person who had even the smallest role in making his morning cup of coffee possible). He has given four TED talks with a combined 10M+ views. He contributes to NPR and  The New York Times  and wrote the article “My Outsourced Life,” which was featured in  The 4-Hour Workweek . He was once the a