Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

AJ Jacobs is a big weirdo, but that's really why I like him. He's spent a year living according

to the Bible in the most literal way possible. He's gone to great lengths to run social experiments

that would, and in fact do, make most of us cringe just thinking about them. He's got a real

knack for putting himself in situations where he's able to examine current rules and thinking

a totally different way and then break our default mode that we get from culture, social programming,

etc, and replace it with something else entirely. His last experiment was to thank one thousand

people that made his morning cup of coffee possible, from the bean farmers in Colombia to the

truckers who get the stuff to the States, to the barista who hands them the cup at the end of

the journey. Thankfully though, this isn't just another gratitude episode, far from it. In fact,

we'll separate our idea of gratitude and contrast it with positive thinking and all that other

associated BS will learn to acknowledge the role of luck in our lives, which leads to compassion

hopefully, which then of course hopefully leads us to discover what really matters to us in this

life, whether that's some feeling of interconnectedness or just a nice fresh cup of coffee. If you are

at all curious how Jason and I have developed this amazing network of people that come on the show,

friends that have helped us bounce back from hard times, personal and professional relationships,

well, you should check out six minute networking. It's a free course. I know you'll do it later,

right? Go to jordanharbinger.com slash course. We're teaching you how to build and maintain

these networks for free in six minutes per day. So go to jordanharbinger.com slash course and

check that out. In the meantime, enjoy this episode with AJ Jacobs. A few years back when we first met,

you were doing some sort of experiment for another book where you were living biblically for

was it a year? It was a year. That's a long time. Oh my god. To not shave. No, I know. And my wife

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