AJ Jacobs: My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee
أ.ج. جاكوبز: رحلتي لإسداء الشكر إلى كل الذين ساهموا في إعداد قهوتي الصباحية
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor. Full bio
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to be annoyed about.
على اكتشاف ما يزعجنى.
and a single insult,
في مدحي، مقابل إهانة واحدة،
the research, I'm not alone.
is wired to focus on the negative.
على الأشياء السلبية.
when we were cave people,
في مرحلة إنسان الكهف،
to go through life.
of anxiety and depression.
the brain's negative bias?
التحيز السلبي للعقل؟
one of the best weapons is gratitude.
فإن الامتنان هو أقوى الأسلحة.
in our house a couple of years ago.
في إرساء قاعدة جديدة نمارسها في المنزل.
who helped make my food a reality.
who grew these tomatoes,
these tomatoes to the store,
who rang these tomatoes up."
pretty well, this tradition.
قال لي ابني ذو العشر سنوات:
aren't in our apartment.
ليسوا في شقتنا.
and thank them in person."
فاذهب واشكرهم فردًا فردًا."
That's an interesting idea."
I like to go on adventures.
فإنني أحب خوض المغامرات.
my son up on his challenge.
to be not so simple at all.
على الإطلاق.
that my coffee would not be possible
I take for granted.
أن وجودهم أمر لا بد منه.
to the coffee shop.
without the road.
who paved the road.
who made the asphalt for the pavement.
from all walks of life.
من مختلف المهن والتخصصات.
designers, miners, goat herds,
والمصممون وعمال المناجم ورعاة الأغنام،
thanking over a thousand people.
من ألف شخص.
but it was also wonderful.
that go right every day,
التي تعمل دون خلل طوال الأيام،
or four that go wrong.
يكون الفشل حليفها.
interconnectedness or our world.
during this project,
at my local coffee shop,
upbeat people you will ever meet.
being a barista is hard.
people in a very dangerous state.
إنها أعراض ما قبل استهلاك الكافيين.
yell at her until she cried,
لصراخ الناس عليها حتى أبكوها،
that Chung did on her hot chocolate.
رسمته تشانج على مشروب الشوكلاتة الساخنة.
into an infinite thanking loop.
like a human being.
دون أن ينظروا إليها.
I'm realizing I've done that.
تذكرت أنني قد تصرفت هكذا.
I'm going to take those two seconds
you're dealing with a human being
بأنك تتعامل مع إنسانٍ
humanity and happiness.
And the fertilizer.
they serve at my local coffee shop.
الذي يقدمونه في المقهى القريب مني.
to South America, to Africa,
how to taste coffee like a pro.
تذوق الخبراء للقهوة.
and you dip it in the coffee
to spray the coffee all over your mouth.
in the side of your cheeks,
for five seconds --
but I could spare five seconds,
أن أخصص خمس ثوانٍ،
and the acidity and the sweetness.
ومقدار مرارتها وحلاوتها.
is so important to gratitude.
and holding on to it as long as possible.
والعيش فيها لأطول وقت ممكن.
in one big blur, as it often does.
مثلما يحصل لنا في أوقات كثيرة.
all around you.
conversations during this year
my coffee cup lid.
zero thought to coffee cup lids.
أي اهتمام تقريبًا.
to this inventor, Doug Fleming,
he put into this lid,
من أجل هذا الغطاء
قد يفسد طعم قهوتك.
تجعله كإيلون ماسك.
that's got an upside-down hexagon
and get maximum aroma.
لاستنشاق أكبر كمية من أريج القهوة.
hundreds of masterpieces all around us
مئات الاختراعات من حولنا،
has a little indentation for my thumb
الذي يحوي نتوءًا من أجل ضغطه بإبهامي
is largely invisible.
كثيرًا ما يكون مخفيًّا عن الأنظار.
and enrich our lives.
لإثراء حياتنا.
حتى يصبح جزءًا منك.
I was just in a thanking frenzy.
and spend a couple hours,
what do you want, what are you selling?"
who does the pest control
المختصة بمكافحة الحشرات
where my coffee is served --
for keeping the bugs out of my coffee."
على حماية قهوتي من الحشرات."
that does sound strange,
لمكافحة المكالمات الوهمية.
it affected me.
in my default mood, which is grumpiness,
to write a thank-you note
that if you act as if you're grateful,
to change our mind is astounding.
that thought changes behavior,
changes our thought.
I want to tell you about is:
on this gratitude trail
that I could thank.
the farmers who grow my coffee beans.
الفلاحين الذين يزرعون بنّ قهوتي.
along these curvy, cliffside roads.
والطرق المتعرجة.
we went around a hairpin turn
عبر منعطفات حادة خطيرة.
على شكل علامة الصليب.
while keeping your hands on the wheel?
the Guarnizo brothers.
fair-trade prices for it.
how the coffee is grown.
this fruit called the coffee cherry.
"Well, we couldn't do our job
is made in Brazil,
they drive around the farm,
from all over the world.
من مناطق متفرقة حول العالم.
الصلب إلى كولومبيا.
and I thanked the steel makers.
to make a cup of coffee.
لنحصل على فنجان من القهوة،
to make a cup of coffee.
لنحصل على فنجان من القهوة،
this globalization,
upsides are far greater,
على المدى الطويل مفيدة جدًا،
in the last 50 years,
في الخمسين سنة الماضية،
as a spark to action.
الامتنان شرارة للعمل.
that gratitude has a downside.
that we'll be complacent.
wonderful, I'm so grateful."
رائع! أنا ممتن غاية الامتنان!".
the more likely you are to help others.
احتمالية مساعدتك للآخرين.
on your own needs.
على احتياجاتك وحدك.
want to pay it forward.
على تذكر الآخرين.
a huge amount of the time.
before this project.
بما كنت عليه قبل هذا المشروع.
that what I take for granted
وجوده أمرًا مسلّمًا به
of people around the world.
the people at the New York reservoir,
المياه في نيويورك لأشكر العاملين فيه،
turn a lever and get safe water.
ذراع الصنبور لأحصل على ماء نقي.
around the world don't have this luxury
لا ينعمون بهذه الرفاهية،
لساعات للحصول على ماء نقي.
to help people get more access,
من أجل مساعدة الناس،
and found a wonderful group
the Nobel Prize committee
it's a little something.
people, friends, family,
الآخرين والأصدقاء والعائلة،
life-transforming experience.
it could be a light bulb.
you can just do a little gesture,
فبإمكانكم عمل خير يسير،
to the designer of a logo you love.
للمصمم الذي صمم شعارك المحبب.
involved in every little thing we do.
في كل جزء من حياتنا.
there's someone in a factory
you're sitting in right now.
التي تجلسون عليها الآن.
and got the copper for this microphone
النحاس الموجود في هذا المايكرفون.
for listening to my story.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
AJ Jacobs - AuthorImmersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor.
Why you should listen
AJ Jacobs' writings stand at the intersection of philosophy, Gonzo journalism and performance art. Stubbornly curious and slyly perceptive, he takes immersive learning to its irrational and profoundly amusing extreme -- extracting wisdom and meaning after long stints as a self-styled guinea pig. For his widely circulated Esquire article "My Outsourced Life," he explored the phenomenon of outsourcing by hiring a team in Bangalore to take care of every part of his life -- from reading his emails to arguing with his wife to reading bedtime stories to his own son. A previous article, "I Think You're Fat," chronicled a brief, cringe-inducing attempt to live his life in Radical Honesty, telling all the truth, all the time.
Jacobs is author of The Know-It-All, which documents the year he spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, uncovering both funny and surprising factoids but also poignant insight into history and human nature. In 2007 he released The Year of Living Biblically, in which he attempted to follow every single rule in the Bible as literally as possible for an entire year. His recent book The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment is a collection of numerous personal experiments. including living according to George Washington's rules of conduct, outsourcing every single task to India, and posing as a woman on an online dating site.
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