THE DREAM IN ACTION

Today, I have the opportunity of meeting author AJ Jacobs who wrote ‘The Know-It-All’ and ‘The Year of Living Biblically’. AJ writes with a very unique style. He lives out life experiments, like reading the entire encyclopedia, or living the bible as literally as possible, or outsourcing his entire life for a month, in order to share the personal reactions and affects of the experiment. I’ve started calling this style experiential writing and I’ve been inspired by it.

As you may or may not know I’ve decided to write a book over the next year (2009) in the same tone. I’ll write an experiential account of the entrepreneurial process. As I work to build SocialDreamium I’m going to record the feeling of dumping $2,000 bucks into the business just months before the wedding, or why I hate my lawyer and how to avoid that (I don’t hate my lawyer by the way, he’s a great guy). Everything I share will be raw and uncut and both helpful for the first or serial entrepreneur and also entertaining for the “nontrepreneur” and the non business folks.

I hope to learn a ton from AJ tomorrow and I’m very excited for the chance to meet him! AJ was one of the 12 people I chose this year to meet. Instead of doing New Years resolutions that never hold up I’ve decided to meet 12 fascinating people, he made the list and I’m excited to check him off of it.

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Check out the video below from the  TED Conference where AJ talks about some of the personal affects and outcomes of his life experiment!