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Optimal Living Daily · September 7, 2026 · 9m

4147: [Part 2] A Helpful Guide To Lifestyle Experiments

Anthony Ongaro of Break the Twitch presents a menu of more than twenty lifestyle experiments and explains three practices that make them stick: keep the design simple, add an accountability partner, and track progress in a visible place. He walks through the experiments that changed his own life most, including a minimalism-focused decluttering game, cutting sugar and carbs, and a social media detox. His core message is that treating a change as an experiment lowers the stakes — a failed experiment costs almost nothing, and the design assumes from the start that some attempts will not work.

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Three rules for a lifestyle experiment that sticks
Ongaro says that three practices make a self-experiment stick: keep the design simple, team up with an accountability partner, and track the experiment somewhere visible.
Ongaro credits the 30-day minimalism game — getting rid of one item on day one, two on day two, and so on — as the experiment that launched his decluttering journey.

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