Brad Jacobs

I haven't had a lot of time for a huge amount of hobbies.

So a little time I've had, my biggest hobby is meditation.

So I meditate twice a day.

And I've been doing this since I've been 16 years old.

Holy cow.

51 years.

I've missed almost no days.

I've done it almost every morning and every afternoon.

And I've tried lots of different forms of meditation.

I've mashed them all together and made my own personal meditation that works for me.

And one of those approaches to meditation are thought experiments.

Thought experiments actually is not a phrase I made up.

It comes from Albert Einstein, actually.

Albert Einstein had a German word that I can't pronounce.

It was phonetically something like Gedanken experiment, which translates to thought experiment.

In fact, using a thought experiment...

is how Einstein discovered relativity because he pictured himself, he imagined himself, did a thought experiment of riding a beam of light and pictured what that would be.

And he saw the relationship between time and space and all became clear to him.

So thought experiments are picturing things intentionally in your mind

And I try to do things that are numinous, meaning I try to do things that are novel, that are different, that are inspiring, that take me out of my comfort zone, that give me a perspective that's not normal, so to speak.