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

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Health & Fitness

4.3 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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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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1:03.4	Hello, wonderful people. My guest today is the fascinating A.J. Jacobs, and do we have a treat for you? This is the man who not only wrote
1:13.0	but lived the year of living biblically and thanks a thousand. As a culturally Jewish
1:18.5	journalist in Manhattan, he took it upon himself to do some investigative reporting
1:22.6	into the psychology of religion by following, or attempting to follow, actually was quite successful,
1:29.4	every single rule in the Bible. The resulting outcomes and insights are both filled with humor
1:35.0	and they're profound. It turns out stoning homosexuals and sacrificing oxen are difficult to
1:41.7	follow through within modern-day Manhattan, but the opportunity to
1:44.9	explore the core human values like not coveting or lying for year or enlightening processes,
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