My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs
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Author A.J. Jacobs embarked on a quest with a deceptively simple idea at its heart: to personally thank every person who helped make his morning cup of coffee. More than one thousand "thank yous" later, Jacobs reflects on the globe-trotting journey that ensued -- and shares the life-altering wisdom he picked up along the way. "I discovered that my coffee would not be possible without hundreds of people I take for granted," Jacobs says.
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This is wonderful. Arun Gandhi tells a story about his grandfather making him search for hours in the dark for a pencil he threw in the grass because it was getting very small after being sharpened many many times. Gandhi (Mohandas) tells him to think about all of the people who worked so hard to make that pencil for him to use. The lesson was to be mindful and grateful for all we have, and to never waste what we have because it is a disservice to those who worked so hard to provide it for us. What an important lesson for American Society!
Thank you to your Son for generating the start of your Journey. Thank you to you AJ for putting in the work and giving hope to others who struggle with anxiety and depression. This video has the potential to save lives worldwide. 👏
i want to thank my mom for buying me the phone to watch this video
I want to thank my Creator for giving me the ability to be thankful.
... and I want to thank this speaker for giving us all this beautiful talk and reminder, and his child for reminding him who couldn't hear the dinner table thank you's.
It's a butterfly effect of realization.
Everything is connected.
And it's our job to make everyone feel appreciated for their part in it.
This video is one of the best videos explaining the power of Gratitude. Thank You to TEDX for making this happen and A Jacobs for teaching us.
I’d like to thank Ted for making this video happen. So,
Thank you Chung!
That is all.
I know that barista; she used to attend my father's church in California... what a small world.
That's quite a journey to be Grateful :)
I thank God for making you! ❤
The most important part of this talk is the message to thank, or at least acknowledge, the wait staff and counter help who serve you.
what a wonderful story! Thank you so much for sharing such inspirational speech both TED staff, and AJ Jacobs!
one of my fav ted talks
Thank you.
Great speeches, always interesting to watch
thank you for upload videos which improve my thinking and life
Thank you for your kindness
Thans Ted you are a great channel
Thanks for everyone works on that
Brilliant and inspiring insights. Thank you very much for sharing your experience and thoughts with us.
Thank God for good coffee! And for the people who make it.
Thank you!! That is so inspiring.
Thank you! Your speech is really inspirational!)))
Great idea! It’s funny how we’ve forgotten wisdom that has been around for so long. A couple thousand years ago Paul wrote: “Finally, believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart].”
PHILIPPIANS 4:8
Plenty of wisdom in that wonderful book
Thank You!
Wise advice to follow. Thanks for the reminder
I would like to thank NPR Ted Radio Hour for sending me here
love this ted talk , bout to practice this starting now
Thank You.
Thank you
Wow so great! THANK YOU for all these informations! :)
That was very cool. Thank you!
Great videos and a super job!
Thank you AJ :)
This may be unrelated but in an anime shortened for fma, this guy was turned immortal against his will at the cost of thousands of people and their souls from henceforth dwelled within him. He could still hear them and so over the years, the learned all of their names and identities
I can see a slight relation, your opinion is what should matter most. This video is not about people pleasing.. food for thought
Thanks. I thought I had a really bad day. But I had delicious egg tarts, salmon and ice-cream today. I even watched great videos including this one! Many thanks!
Wonderful
Thank you so much 😊 😉👍
That was awesome.
I would like to thank NPR for sending me here
It’s really wonderful story :)
Early but already watched on TED app
Thank you for this reminder. Good tool for all the angry birds and narcissists. Thank you
Gratitude is real ^_^
Nice ❤
Thanks cute journey
Really smart and good
*I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.*
… full of horseshit.
This is our reality, oddly seldom realized. Hope it goes viral. And he is funny too :P
When we feel alone, we our rather wrong, and probably just in the wrong place or hidden in our room.
nb: where I live, in Quebec City, I am considered "poor" because I have a minimal income, but I tell people the truth: I have running drinkable water, including hot water on demand, enough food (I even have to avoid over-eating), two computers (work/gaming), etc. I am in a rich country and quite privileged (while plenty of people suffer, to say the least. Social exclusion does exist mind you and is the poverty many experience in richer countries).
Ps: And he made it a simple cute presentation, because the entire array of people, including passed away researchers, designers or happenstance trailblazers, behind almost all things we own is epic.
I've never ignored someone at a cash register. It wouldn't even occur to me. #VirtueSignal
Milton Friedman gave this speech decades ago talking about a pencil. These examples demonstrate how amazing free trade and decentralized economies are and how they can bring happiness and prosperity to so many people along the way. Chalk up another victory for capitalism and freedom over socialism and control.
Still, capitalism is not heaven. A J Jacobs said himself that the brothers who cultivate the coffe cherry would earn more in fair trade prices. Imagine those who have to suffer to produce their coffee, don't earn much as the Guarnizo brothers and still didn't receive a "thank you" of the consumers they reach. Along capitalism is greed and it doesn't give prosperity to everyone. This doen't mean I am socialist, I just don't worship capitalism as a perfect system. English is not my native language, so in case I committed any grammar mistake, just warn me.
I would like to thank Andrew Kap for one more excellent video!:)
He must have a lot of time in his hands
I mean as a writer, he said he travels to get experiences for his work. So it was kind of a big ol' business trip.
No one has time. You got to make time.
Everyone has 24 hours to a day, which analytically speaking, every human being could do this if the reward was worth it. If I’m not mistaken, the reward was for self gratification to ultimately help the world be more grateful. Expectations were low I’d imagine for compensation. The most attractive component IMO is the potential to reach the world. 💯
@@fit333pmsenthusiast5 What I want to understand is why you’re replying to a 3 year old comment XD
Excellent question, according to Alexa, Why is the most difficult question to ask. I don’t know yet but what I do know is that some people who I starting to care for suffer from anxiety and depression to a degree. I’m hoping they are directed here at some point and get something out of my view on this video. There is hope to be more than a statistic. It was worth the time I spent on it. Thank you for asking.
First like first comment
Nyc video
Luv u a lot
Is it advertising of coffee?
I wish those who avoid paying their taxes (also known as the rich) would appreciate the sentiment of this video as may be then they'd realise how paying their taxes makes the world function better and since everything they do uses things that are a result of others paying their taxes, they should appreciate it and pay their taxes too.
Is it me or is ted talks becoming the slightly academic version of buzzfeed
Hasn't it been that way for years?
TED is irrelevant now because they've become a stupid media channel desperate for content
You ruined it thank you
Imagine being so dead inside this is your reaction to this kind of video.
SN Project tbh I didn’t watch the video, this is just the thought that occurred to me when I saw the video, so I shared it and it seems like others agree... but yes, my soul is black as the void, thank you for noticing.
Michael Phelps
plz somebody help me, what is precaffeination? I can't search this word in my dictionary. 04:14
Caffeination is consuming caffeine, such as drinking coffee. "Pre" means "before," so "precaffeination" means "before consuming caffeine." He's saying that the people hadn't had their coffee yet, with the implication that they would be grumpy because of that.
เพราะชีวิตจริง มันอยู่ นอกโทรศัพท์
I thought this was Mclovin.
Weird flex but okay. "Looking at video title"
Look for "i pencil, the movie".
Nice ,,,,#shaancreative
4:37 I refer to this as a Canadian Stand-off.
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Interesting
He kinda looks like the guy from star trek
You forgot to thank your son for actually giving you the idea of thanking a thousand
Has anyone ever told you that you have the voice of original Daniel Tiger?
Queisso
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Then it seems you didn't realize who make those people who crate your morning coffee? God bless.
Some of these comments... Geez.
Trump lovers.
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If you think simple, the idea is good.But nobody does what Jacob does.
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3rd
Thank Trump for covfefe
Didn't he thank them by paying for the coffee
He said, and i can relate, that just paying without even looking made the barista feel like a bending machine. If the only things that you hear from your customers are the complains it becomes a really awful and depressing environment and you start to believe that no one appreciate what you do.
If you complain when things go wrong, please be grateful when things are done right.
@@micamarayvos nice thought. Thanks
There is something very inauthentic about this talk. Almost as if he did it with a 'Ted Talk' in mind.
He did it to write a book. He did the Ted talk to promote the book
Whenever someone does a presentation it should be fine with audience in mind. So yeah it sounds like a Ted talk. --Not that I got past 5 mins though.
You lost me at: “When we were cave people, trying to avoid predators”.
I don't see how nationalism out of line with being grateful, international trade is not an act of gratitude, its just pragmatic. And Jingoism is antithetical to isolationism, not synonymous, don't use words that you don't understand in speeches. Otherwise decent human interest talk.
Define Jingoism
For those US cannot make, globlization is OK. Otherwise, globlization ruins US industries, as US high salary workers cannot compite with other countries'.
Coffee is not good for you, it is acidic. Tea is good for you as it is alkaline.
Woooosh
Coffee
Covefe
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That's nice AJ Jacobs, but did you pay them to make up for the labor garnished from them by the system of capital so they might have a fundamentally better life?
I mean, I wouldn't mind a thank you; but some money goes a lot further than some upper-middle class guy showing off how woke he is. My current lot in life is still unchanged by it.
I'd like to know what you mean by "labor garnished...capital(ism?)" Are you talking about taxes? Or people having their wages garnished because they owe debt (and it's capitalism's fault?).
Follow many Favorite few - Wages as a form of theft of labor. At every stage of this person's journey someone made more off of those people working than they were paid in wages. The full value of the work being done by these people is not being paid out.
It's a greater theft than taxes.
@@AaronMk91 oh I never thought of it like that. Thank you for explaining.
I was moved … but: what a load of crap!
Market is a net. You literally would have to thank everyone on the planet... That's... Lame..
This is a lame Ted talk...
No purpose at all...
Does the presenter have soy in his coffee, or were all the gruesome home truths about the violence and brutality toward animals that go into making that coffee get conveniently omitted from his journey of gratitude? Of all the things one can't live without, a coffee is surely quite far down the list among other various trivialities. The end of the video discusses clean water supply....Perhaps a better idea would have been thanking everyone involved in providing us with clean running drinking water, which isn't trivial, doesn't necessarily require horrific violence toward animals and their young, and might have made for an inspiring talk.
So I will either never drink coffee again OR buy farm in Columbia and thank myself .... I am not gonna thanks ANYONE
Thank you.