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The 60-Day Creatine Experiment What really happened when I took 20 grams a day You know the standard creatine dose: 5 grams a day.I’ve taken that for years. Very consistently. Very boring. So naturally I wondered: What if I crank that up fourfold for 60 days?What if I take 20 grams a day and see…
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I didn’t do this experiment to become a minimalist monk or to impress Silicon Valley.I did it because I wanted to know what would happen if I removed the one object that has basically become my third hand. So I took my SIM-card, pushed it into a dumbphone that looked like it escaped from 2009,…
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The idea In the summer of 2021, I gave myself one year to prepare for a simple yet insane goal: to survive for a week in the Swedish wilderness with minimal equipment.No fancy tent, no food, no phone. Just a knife, a saw, some fishing line, a hook, a float, a pot, a firesteel, a…
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Curiosity on a Train When I was twenty, I took the train to Antwerp with a strange mission in mind: I wanted to live like a homeless person for a while. Not as a social experiment for attention, not to prove some moral point, but because I was curious. Curious about what it would feel…
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I decided to walk barefoot outside for one hour a day, for 30 days straight.Not to break records or prove mental toughness, but because I was curious. Would it make me calmer? Help me sleep better? Feel more connected to my body? The first days: easy beginnings The first few walks felt great. The weather…
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