Our entire life is an experiment, where we are pursuing our goals and finding out what works and what does not.
A scientific, experimentative approach to life leads us to acquire what we want in life, to build good habits, improve our relationships and become a better version of ourselves.

A Scientific Approach To Life

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The more we experiment, the more avenues open up to learning new techniques, principles and skills that contribute to our self-growth, and help us make a real breakthrough. 
Deliberate experiments can be time and money intensive, can help us with incremental changes or can put us in an entirely new paradigm of self-evolution.

Deliberate Experimentation

Mainstream knowledge, expertise, skills and techniques have a linear curve towards growth and success. Experimentation breaks the curve and provides us with an exponential success curve, something that is not possible with the path everyone else is taking.
Many great personalities like Thomas Edison, Picasso and Da Vinci were ‘life-experimenters’ who were always trying something new and hence were the reason for disruptive inventions and some of the most loved creations.

Experimentation: Breaking The Linear Growth Curve

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<li>Greatness and the ability to be extraordinary isn’t limited to a chosen few, and we all can increase our deliberate experiments and increase our odds of infinite success in a significant way.</li>
<li>The creator of Nike, Phil Knight talks about experimenting with your crazy ideas and keep going, not be stopped by rules and regulations and acceptability.</li>
<li>Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, talks about taking the ‘bet’ on life every time, and even with a 10 per cent chance of success, you are going to do well.</li>
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The Deliberate Experiment Rule: Improving Life Through Experimentation

The greater your capacity for a long-term commitment to deliberate experiments, the more rewards fall within your grasp

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

Almost everything is an experiment — a work in progress. The earlier you can find what doesn’t work, the sooner you can discover what actually leads to real progress or success in life or career.

“…your entire life is an experiment about living; about living in an optimal way where you try to make the most of every situation in order to help you live life to the very best of your ability,” <a href="https://blog.iqmatrix.com/life-experiment">writes </a>Adam Sicinski of IQ Matrix.

Scientists are great at deliberate experiments — the process leads to great discoveries about life and the world we live in.

The same approach for making leaps in scientific findings can be used to achieve what you want, build better habits, improve relationships or become a better version of yourself.

Almost every part of life is open for experimentation as long as the goal is to improve or get better, smarter or faster.

It pays to think like a scientist — every failure is an opportunity to learn. Every step back is a set up for a comeback.

Joshua Becker, author of The More of Less says, “Life is experienced as a constant, never-ending shift between successes and failures — sometimes occurring within moments of one another. To be human is to fail. We know this to be true from personal experience.

Deliberate experiment means learning new things, better ways, principles, rules and skills as you keep evolving — the future should always be better than the past.

The more you experiment, the more opportunities you find to make a real breakthrough. The moment you stop experimenting, things can quickly get stale and boring and you stop growing or find better approaches that can end up saving you time and money.

“ The road to deliberate experimentation starts with one experiment, but not all experiments are created equal. Some experiments are extremely time and money intensive. Some create incremental changes, while others could be life-changing,” <a href="/accelerated-intelligence/forget-about-the-10-000-hour-rule-7b7a39343523">argues </a>Michael Simmons.

Experiment lessons make your success curve exponential instead of linear

“When I try over and over again, I eventually make a breakthrough. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something,” says Seth Godin.

Thomas Edison, Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci experimented a lot in their lifetime.

“Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times,” says Napoleon Hill.

Picasso experimented throughout his long lifetime. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.

They were all not great pieces, but some of the best artworks of our century emerged from those artworks.

There are about 870 paintings by Vincent van Gogh existing today.

The greater your capacity for a long-term commitment to your deliberate practice or experiments, the more rewards fall within your grasp.

The big lesson to learn them is that outliers produce just as many bad ideas as everyone else — they just experiment and produce more ideas overall.

In other words, the key to long term success or increasing your odds of success is producing more experiments and doing more of what works.

In his book, “Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE ” Phil Knight, said this about working hard on what you believe can turn into something great:

“So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.”

Many people don’t produce more or perform a lot of deliberate experiments because it’s time-intensive. Jeff Bezos once explained in <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312516530910/d168744dex991.htm">SEC filing </a>:

“Given a ten percent chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time. But you’re still going to be wrong nine times out of ten. We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs.”

If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will probably not hit a home run. If you can do enough experiments, you can increase your odds of success significantly.

Greatness and extraordinary success aren’t reserved for a preordained few. It is available to you and to everyone. If you are willing to increase your deliberate experiments, your efforts will pay off.

Life is an experiment in progress — and you are the chief scientist.

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