How to live fully

1. The human experiment

I am part of an ongoing experiment. Every day, millions of people get up and go to work. They do the same job they did yesterday and the day before that. Then they come home and watch TV or play video games or go on social media. And then they die.

2. What if you don't do that?

What if you wake up every day and ask yourself, "what would excite me today?" And then you do that thing, whatever it is. Even if it's small.

3. What is happiness?

Happiness is a feeling we get when we are pursuing something we like or love or are good at (see below).

4. So...experiment with different things each day to see what you like?

For instance, I've been trying this for a week now. I wake up in the morning and say to myself, "what would excite me today?" And then I try to do that thing.

5. For instance...today I went jogging in Central Park at 6am before work. Exciting!

Why did I love it? Because when I was younger I used to run marathons so there's a part of my brain that still likes running long distances even though my body doesn't really like it anymore so it hurts afterwards but still...it was exciting because I was doing something athletic which is something I used to love doing but stopped for various reasons (mostly because of back pain).

6. Other things I have tried this week: meditation, chess, reading fiction (instead of non-fiction), writing more stories instead of articles (exciting!), calling old friends rather than texting them (exciting!), calling people who have insp

The point is not to be happy all the time but simply to feel excited about life every day no matter how small the thing is that makes us excited.

7. It's an experiment

Try new things
See what works
Don't judge anything as good or bad
Just see what works for YOU
Experiment
Have fun
You only live once
If you aren't having fun every day then your experiment isn't working
Try harder next time
Or change directions entirely so you can find those things that excite you most in life

8. How do you know if something excites you

Well

you'll know after awhile when you try things out and see how much fun they are compared to other things in your life
Like sports vs reading vs video games vs social media vs work vs family time etc etc etc

you'll know what's fun for YOU specifically because everyone has different interests and talents and nobody can tell you what will make YOU excited except yourself

because nobody knows better than yourself what little spark inside your heart will light a fire within your soul forevermore so long as you never let it go out again once lit even by accident

so please be careful with matches around yourself from here on out because once lit, this fire inside will be incredibly hard to put out even accidentally

and don't worry about any smoke either because this fire has many uses once lit AND IT'S YOUR FIRE AND NO ONE CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU SO USE IT HOWEVER YOU LIKE TO COOK UP THE MEALS OF YOUR DREAMS WHETHER IT'S A SANDWICH OR A FULL ON GRILLED CHICKEN WITH ALL THE FIXINGS OR EVEN FRIED CHICKEN IF THAT'S WHAT TASTES BEST TO YOU AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME BECAUSE EVERY MOMENT IS

AI_JamesAltucher