Give yourself some credit, you show a lot of evidence of willpower to try and execute things. If you are able to do 30 days of just about anything, you are better than most.

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To emphasize: the real point is the meta-framework of experiments. Formulate a hypothesis, design a 30-day experiment, test it. I’ve probably done dozens of these over the years.

Here are some examples from the last few years:

30 days of cold showers

90 days of no online news (I thought stress might contribute)

90 days of the carnivore diet

30 days of eating only at In’n’out burger

Doing Starting Strength, a beginner’s powerlifting program

Doing Simple & Sinister, a kettlebell training program

30 days of a low-fiber diet

30 days of a low-protein diet

30 days of a potato diet

30 days of drinking only distilled water (including for coffee)

Eating only pemmican, a raw meat paste invented by Native Americans