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AJ Jacobs - Poignant & Humorous Lessons from Thanking Everyone Who Made My Cup of Coffee

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Health & Fitness

4.3822 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

4X NYT best-selling author, the hilarious and poignant AJ Jacobs, spent a year following every commandment in the Bible, to see what would happen. He then dove deep into gratitude by traveling around the globe to thank every person who had helped produce his morning coffee. In an incredibly interesting conversation, he shares his witty and profound insights from these experiments, and also teaches us what it takes to accomplish the things we want in our own lives, and gives us techniques we can use to motivate ourselves towards our goals.

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0:00.0

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Now on to REO.

0:53.3

Hello, wonderful people.

0:55.6

My guest today is the fascinating A.J. Jacobs, and do we have a treat for you?

1:01.6

This is the man who not only wrote but lived the Year of Living Biblically and Thanks a Thousand.

1:07.5

As a culturally Jewish journalist in Manhattan, he took it upon himself to do some investigative

1:12.0

reporting into the psychology of religion by following, or attempting to follow, actually

1:17.8

he was quite successful, every single rule in the Bible. The resulting outcomes and insights are both

1:24.3

filled with humor and they're profound. It turns out stoning homosexuals and sacrificing auctions are difficult to follow through

1:32.1

within Monter Day Manhattan, but the opportunity to explore the core human values like

1:37.0

not coveting or lying for a year or enlightening processes, as was the spiritual understanding

1:41.8

that arose from them. For his next book, Thanks a Thousand,

1:46.0

Eja decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee.

1:52.0

The resulting journey took him across the globe, transformed his life,

1:55.0

and revealed secrets about how gratitude can make us all happier, more generous, and more connected.

2:00.0

His new book, The Puzzler,

2:02.0

One Man's Quest to Solved Most Baffling Puzzles Ever,

2:04.8

from Crosswords and Jigsaws to

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