📚 3 Books mentioned in "The Thought Experiment That Instantly Makes You Happier | A.J. Jacobs Ep. 174" of The Jordan Harbinger Show

and and also the on to me the main drawback of positive thinking is when you believe that just by positive thinking you can make something happen like the secret you know that if you think positively then your cancer will go away

AJ Jacobs mentions 'The Secret' as an example of the potential drawback of positive thinking, specifically the idea that positive thoughts alone can cure illness.

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well you were on a few years back when we first met you were doing some sort of experiment for another book where you were living biblically

The host introduces AJ Jacobs and references his previous appearance on the show, mentioning the experiment he did for a book about living biblically.

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that was my previous book and can we talk about that for a second because I'm kind of taking people through your journey in case they haven't heard that episode because I think that that's something that people go yeah al humans that are all from Africa etcetera but then we really don't treat each other like that at all oh don't worry and that one started because I got this email out of the blue from the sky who said you don't know me but I'm your eighth cousin

AJ Jacobs refers to his previous book, which was about the experiment of tracing his family tree and discovering that all humans are related.

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