Mind Hacking - How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days
<PROLOGUE> $numreads = 0; sub ReadBook { My Story The day I gave up drinking was the day the Secret Service stormed my living room. “Stormed” might be too strong a word, since they asked if they could come in first. They were polite about it, two senior agents and a younger guy in his twenties. Maybe I should have said no, but I was still a little buzzed from lunch. It was the Friday before Labor Day, and I had polished off a couple of beers with some coworkers before leaving work early and coming home. I only drank on special occasions, such as weekdays. At the time, I was running a humor website that was known for doing outrageous stunts to get publicity and promotion. One of my favorite pranks was getting a credit card in a celebrity’s name. It was surprisingly easy to do: you just called up your credit card company, told them you wanted to add an “additional cardholder,” and gave them a famous person’s name. Like, say, Barack Obama. At the time I got the fake credit card with...