Twenty-Percent Experiment

an effort to grow stronger

I am proposing a month-long experiment—and I am engaging in it with you.

Reduce your output—e.g., commitments, posting, relationships, talking—and your consumption—e.g., food, purchases, energy use, gambling, booze—by twenty percent.

See what occurs.

If a tiny number of us do this, I reckon that self and surroundings will improve. By improve, I mean: greater happiness, health, power, and reason.

You will think better. You will be more appealing. You will be stronger.

I am not interested in “more” of anything, including the supposed good things, like reading and community (I dislike that mauve term). Even exercise, although I encourage it.

In this case, I am interested in less—approached in a fixed and doable fashion.

The supposed more—should any be needed—will naturally fill the gap. I have no idea what it will be. That is not our concern.

Our concern is the victory that reduction necessitates.

Falsity abounds in excess.