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10% Happier with Dan Harris
The author detailed following all the rules in the Bible for a year, which included having a crazy beard and cautiously stoning adulterers with pebbles. A major takeaway from this experience was the importance of gratitude and practicing acting as if one were a good person to change one's thinking.
For example, if he lived according to the rules of the Bible for a year, he spent a year engaging in an insane fitness routine, things like that.
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The author detailed following all the rules in the Bible for a year, which included having a crazy beard and cautiously stoning adulterers with pebbles. A major takeaway from this experience was the importance of gratitude and practicing acting as if one were a good person to change one's thinking.
For example, if he lived according to the rules of the Bible for a year, he spent a year engaging in an insane fitness routine, things like that.
I did a book called the Year of Living Biblically where I followed all the rules in the Bible the famous ones like the Ten Commandments but I also had a crazy beard I also stoned adulterers but I use very small stones like pebbles so I didn't I didn't go to jail
another one was the one we were talking about about how acting your way into a new way of thinking so you know part of my goal was in addition to the crazy stuff like stoning adulterers I had to do a sort of moral makeover because the Bible says you shouldn't gossip