There is a CrossFit gym near my place in London. One day I was bicycling home late and thought it would be interesting to find out more about CrossFit. Maybe it would be a good self-experiment to try CrossFit. Maybe this was the thing that would complete me. The place was closing but I asked… Read more »
Month: October 2017
Self-experiment: No Coffee
My parents are British, we always drank tea. I tried coffee a few times, but I didn’t like it until I was 25. How I Started Drinking Coffee When I was 25, I lived in Sydney. I started going with friends to a cafe in Newtown called Campos. We all ordered coffee. I had one… Read more »
How to Create New Habits: Self-experiment
Self-experiment is the easiest way to create new habits. What is self-experiment? If I want to start doing something or stop doing something, I will set myself a self-experiment. This means I will start or stop doing that one habit every day for the next 30 days. At the end of the 30 days, I… Read more »
How I ran a marathon to train for a marathon
“The best way to train for a marathon… is to run a marathon.” – Thomas Jefferson (just kidding) “Second weddings are a triumph of optimism over experience.” – Samuel Johnson A Moment of Clarity I was in the Cotswolds for a friend’s second wedding. His father looked much older than I remembered. My friend’s father… Read more »