My New Favourite Book of 2025 (So Far): Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, PhD

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Feeling lost? Feeling stuck? Some people say, “Just make a plan, set a goal, and do it!” Well, that never quite works for me—at least, not for long.

I’ve also swung to the opposite extreme, influenced by Daoism, Zen philosophy, and books like The Surrender Experiment. Yet I found it difficult to fully relinquish my ambitions and desire to actively shape my path.

As a big science fan who takes pride in the scientific method, I had the intuition to run “experiments” with my life—even setting up a journal called Lab Rat Log, with myself as the 🐁. But it didn’t quite work.

Then I read this book and realized my experiments were NOT tiny—they were way too big! I was trying to run rigorous experiments, but the maintenance cost was simply unsustainable. Key takeaway: in life experiments, bigger is NOT always better.

From a futurist perspective, I particularly enjoyed the chapters Deeper Sense of Time and Dance with Disruption. Experiments, rather than executing pre-planned goals, align better with navigating uncertain and multiple futures.

About the book itself: it’s an extremely practical guide to running your own life with tiny experiments—from questioning and reexamining taken-for-granted mindsets about goals, purpose, and procrastination to practical methods like setup packs, growth loops, and Social Flow. Backed by solid cognitive science research, this isn’t just another self-help book rehashing the same old advice. Highly recommended!

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