why some people live their lives in a particular way. He then speculates, What if I tried that myself? Then he jumps right into the How stage, as he starts to live the experience. For example, Jacobs found himself wondering about people who say, “I follow everything in the Bible.” “And my question was “Yeah, they say that, but what if you really lived by everything in the Bible?” So Jacobs did that, for a year (the experience was chronicled in his book The Year of Living Biblically).