<b>It’s another Saturday night at your local tavern. The lights flicker on and off. 2:00 AM again. Time to slink home or time to get started on a new adventure?<i>The 2 AM Principle</i> will be your inspiration—and guide—to living life to the fullest.</b><br><br>After a routine night of barhopping and mingling, the time is 2:00 AM and you have reached a turning point. Do you hunker down and head home? Or do you ride a second wind and find an adventure that is equal parts spontaneous, reckless, fun, and life-changing? Make your decision carefully—the latter can potentially involve a Jenga game with a drunkenly volatile Kiefer Sutherland, or crashing a million dollar wedding at the Plaza Hotel and spending a wild night with the bridesmaids, or breaking into a park with a group of adults just to play like kids on a playground.<br><br>Jon Levy has done all of the above and has taken these adventures to extreme heights, has traveled around the world, and changed his life in the process. A self-proclaimed geek and a late bloomer, Jon is also a highly influential behavioral scientist and creator of The Jon Levy Model of Adventure. It’s a breakthrough four-step process (Preparation, Intrusion, Elevation, and Advancement) featuring an in-depth guide to maintaining a perfect adventure—including how to choose a team for an adventure (or go it solo), adhering to a specific mission, deciding what boundaries you can and will cross, how to chart out risk and unpredictability—using his own adventures to elaborate on the process. As Jon says, “Beware of a determined geek, we are clever and have very little to lose.”<i>The 2 AM Principle</i> is also stocked with alternately outrageous and touching stories from his own life of adventure: his successes, failures, and getting gored by a bull in Pamplona, Spain.<br><br>Part Neil Strauss’s <i>The Game</i> and part Timothy Ferriss’s <i>The 4-Hour Work Week</i>, mixed with the geeky enthusiasm of a TED Talk, this book will not only find an audience with nerds and wallflowers, but will resonate with anyone looking to live more fully—and adventurously.