What if the "best" advice is wrong-for you?
Every diet, productivity hack, and career path you've ever been told to follow is based on averages. But you are not average. No one is.
N of 1 reveals the hidden flaw in how advice is made: research optimized for populations fails individuals. The same food that stabilizes one person's blood sugar spikes another's. The same schedule that energizes one worker exhausts another. When 70% of people benefit from a treatment, 30% are harmed by following "the science."
This book won't tell you what to eat, when to wake up, or which path to choose. Instead, it gives you something more valuable: a method for discovering your own answers.
Drawing on the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine's recognition of personal trials as Level 1 evidence, N of 1 teaches you to:
- Design rigorous self-experiments across health, productivity, learning, and career
- Distinguish signal from noise using proven research methods
- Apply safeguards that separate informed experimentation from reckless gambling
- Build a personal evidence hierarchy where your data sits at the top
From scientists who tested hypotheses on their own bodies to athletes who broke every rule of their sport, the outliers who changed the world shared one trait: they stopped outsourcing their lives to statistics.
Your experience is data, not anecdote.
It's time to become the scientist of your own life.