My life as an experiment
Subtitle: one man's humble quest to improve himself by living as a woman, becoming George Washington, telling no lies, add other radical tests
By: A.J. Jacobs
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781439104996
Work titles: Guinea pig diaries
Description: 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.
Notes: Previously published as The guinea pig diaries--T.p. & cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-248).
Table of contents: title: My life as a beautiful woman; title: My outsourced life; title: I think you're fat; title: 240 minutes of fame; title: The rationality project; title: The truth about nakedness; title: What would George Washington do?; title: The unitasker; title: Whipped.