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Excerpts from this book by A.J. Jacobs:

"I've always wanted to be a generalist, to snack off the pupu platter of life without committing to any particular entree."

"You can raise your IQ by six points if you take a sauna right before your test."

"'So, how would you define intelligence?' I ask him. 'That's a very difficult question', Ron says. If he has to be pinned down, he tells me, it probably has to do with trial and error, learning from mistakes, moderating our thoughts and actions like a thermostat, like the painter who dabs paint and, if it doesn't looks good dabs in a new place."

"Those people who reside on the higher floors of apartment buildings live longer than those who make their homes on the lower floors." (Think Einstein's special theory of relativity).