JACOBS: I thanked Corey Hajim, the curator who helps choose who does that TED talk. MICHELLE QUINT: As, like, a book editor, you get thanked but it's, like, so rarely with voices. JACOBS: So I thanked Michelle Quint, who edited the book on which the TED Talk was based. JACOBS: So I actually went out and made a list and called the people and thanked them. He has thanked everyone who helped make his TED Talk possible. has also done something pretty meta for this episode of the show. ZOMORODI: And in the spirit of the gratitude chain, A.J. JACOBS: It's more about a mindset, being aware of the thousands of people involved in every little thing we do, remembering that there's someone in a factory who made the fabric for the chairs you're sitting in right now, that someone went into a mine and got the copper for this microphone. JACOBS: And it doesn't have to be coffee. JACOBS: The gratitude chain is the idea that it doesn't just take a village to make a cup of coffee. ended up thanking over a thousand people in what he calls a gratitude chain.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY TED TALK DRIVER
But I also thanked the logo designer, the botanist, the truck driver who drove the coffee beans.
And I went to South America when we were still allowed to travel, and I thanked the coffee farmers. JACOBS: And that turned out to be a crazy amount of people. documents his journey to thank every single person who had even the slightest hand in making his morning cup of coffee. And so in his book, "Thanks A Thousand," A.J. ZOMORODI: One of his most recent experiments was about trying to see if gratitude really would make him happier. I tried to practice radical honesty, where there's no filter between your brain and your mouth. JACOBS: I tried to be the healthiest person alive. JACOBS: So I wrote a book about living by all the rules of the Bible, from the Ten Commandments to growing an alarmingly huge beard. His specialty is experimenting on himself, trying out different kinds of behaviors and then documenting how they change him, for better or worse. ZOMORODI: You might be familiar with A.J.'s work. JACOBS: It is a discipline that you have to work at. has brought us a selection of talks that have influenced his work, talks that he is grateful for, with ideas about the benefits of gratitude. ZOMORODI: This is writer and TED speaker A.J. My default mood is more Larry David than Mr. And today on the show, The Gratitude Chain - one man's quest to deliver something as deceptively simple as a thank you to hundreds of people across the globe.Ī J JACOBS: It doesn't come to me naturally.
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