How To Improve Your Life One Experiment At A Time
And five experiments to get you started.
When we experiment, we improve.
There are infinite experiments we can run on ourselves to do things like stop checking our phone, have better conversations, or get better at one thing in one month.
But you’ve got to start somewhere, so here are five simple ones to try.
Each of the following costs no money, requires little time, and delivers valuable lessons you can use to optimize your life.
1. Try a new answer to the question, “What do you do?”
When you meet someone new, one of the first questions you’ll inevitably be asked is some version of, “What do you do?”
You likely already have a standard answer to the question and a good sense of how people typically react to it.
That makes it the perfect opportunity for an experiment.
The next few times you get asked the question, switch up your answer in some distinct way.
Emphasize a different element of what you do, switch up the way you describe your work, or position yourself in a completely different way.
