Better Ways to Say Thank You

After Hours

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Felix, Mihir and their colleague Kathleen McGinn discuss the role of gratitude at work and at home. Gratitude can be incredibly effective, so why don’t we thank others more often? What goes wrong when a thank you seems shallow and inauthentic? Can gratitude even be an impediment to change? Plus, we debate early retirement. Clearly, it is what people want. Why don’t we give it to them?

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
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0:43.7	Welcome everyone.
0:44.7	You're listening to After Hours.
0:45.7	I'm Felix.
0:46.7	I'm me here.
0:47.7	And I'm Kathleen.
0:48.7	Kathleen McGinn.
0:49.7	So great to have you.
0:50.7	It's wonderful to be here.
0:51.7	Thanks for inviting me.
0:52.7	Kathleen is a dear colleague of ours at Harvard Business School.
0:56.7	For our listeners to get to know you a little bit, tell us what you're working on, a project
1:01.5	that you're excited about.
1:03.5	So I study gender and employment, and I have a big project that looks back into all of
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