Jacobs is the author of Thanks a Thousand, It’s All Relative, Drop Dead Healthy, and the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, and My Life as an Experiment. He is a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Get a handwritten thank you card at ajjacobs.com/thanks.

In this episode we discuss:

What is Project Gratitude?
How A.J. went from grumpy to grateful
Why A.J. chose coffee as his main source of gratitude
The importance of savoring coffee (and everything else in life that matters)
Why we should be grateful for the barrister
The enemy of gratitude
The importance of the “zarf”
Where gratitude emerges, according to gratitude expert Bob Emmons
They importance of reframing your life
Some strategies to increase gratitude in daily life

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Today it’s a great honor to have A.J. Jacobs on the podcast. Jacobs is the author of Thanks a Thousand, It’s All Relative, Drop Dead Healthy, and the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, and My Life as an Experiment. He is a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Get a handwritten thank you card at