The James Altucher Show

I was at a restaurant with this beautiful, thick-cut bacon. The kind you use a knife and fork on. It had fat running through it. And I felt that feeling when you fall in love in junior high school. My friend AJ Jacobs is going to prove bacon is the the path to immortality. "I am very skeptical of health gurus," he said. "You can find a study to support anything." I want him to find that study so I can eat bacon three times a day. And live forever doing it. I'd spend the rest of my life experimenting. That's how AJ lives his life. Every year, he does a new one. Then he writes about it. Most of our lives are lived in our head. Creation is when it leaks out. He's written four New York Times bestselling books. And he's the editor-at-large for Esquire. But you don't need permission. These four words will give you ultimate freedom to do anything you want: "It's just an experiment." Forget the gatekeepers. Just play. AJ has done hundreds of experiments. He learns from them. So do I. Here are 3 lessons I learned from