The Next Big Idea Daily
What if engaging with great ideas could become one of your daily habits? What if some of the best tips for living better and working smarter were served up with your morning coffee, a hit of motivation guaranteed to start your day right? That’s the idea behind “The Next Big Idea Daily.” We work with hundreds of non-fiction authors — experts in productivity, creativity, leadership, communication, and other fields — boil down their big ideas into bite-sized chunks, and then offer you one each morning.
Episodes
April 26, 2024 • 13 mins
You didn't choose to live this life, but you can still make it beautiful.
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April 25, 2024 • 15 mins
If you're living in a city in America right now, there's a nuclear weapon pointed directly at you.
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April 24, 2024 • 16 mins
Life is full of moral dilemmas. How do you know you're making the right calls?
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April 23, 2024 • 13 mins
Today, friend-of-the-pod Steven Johnson stops by to share a few big ideas from his recent book "Extra Life," which President Obama praised for offering readers "a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives."
• If you enjoy this episode, check out the audio essay we made with Steven. It's called "Immortality: A User's Guide"
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Have you ever been afraid to speak up? You're not alone, says Elaine Lin Hering, a lecturer at Harvard Law School. But your silence has repercussions for you and those around you. Today, Elaine is here to help you summon the courage to say what's on your mind.
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April 19, 2024 • 12 mins
To close out the week, let's hear from Reddit's Global Brand Ambassador, Will Cady, who has a few surprising tips for unlocking your creativity.
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Robin Reames grew up in a fundamentalist Christian, white, and very conservative family in the Deep South. "Up until about my late adolescence and early adulthood," she says, "I more or less believed that the polarized view of the world that dominated my subculture was true. They are the bad guys. We are the good guys." But things changed when she went away to college and discovered rhetoric. That ancient art ultimately showed her ...
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April 17, 2024 • 12 mins
In this episode, CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto warns that another world war could be looming.
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April 16, 2024 • 14 mins
Keto, Atkins, paleo, and Whole30 — it seems like fad diets are everywhere these days. How did they get so popular, and are they doomed to fail?
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Today, indispensable financial advice from Jill Schlesinger, Emmy and Gracie Award winning business analyst for CBS News and author of "The Great Money Reset: Change Your Work, Change Your Wealth, Change Your Life."
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April 12, 2024 • 13 mins
Can Joseph Campbell’s "hero’s journey" help you find fulfillment?
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April 11, 2024 • 11 mins
Is the design of the internet to blame for our current crises of disinformation, mental illness, and hyper-partisan division?
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April 10, 2024 • 13 mins
Why does living in the so-called Information Age only seem to make life more confusing? Amanda Montell has some surprising answers.
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Today, a few brainy insights from neuroscientist Chantel Prat, author of "The Neuroscience of You," which our pal Adam Grant called her book "the smartest, clearest, and funniest book I've ever read about the brain."
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April 8, 2024 • 13 mins
How smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder.
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For the past few years, Scott Rick, a behavioral scientist at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, has been surveying couples, and he's reached a surprising conclusion: many tightwads are married to spendthrifts. Why does this happen? Why do penny pinchers fall for cash splashers? And if you find yourself in such a relationship, what can you do about it?
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April 4, 2024 • 16 mins
William Ury wrote the world’s best-selling book on negotiation. Now he's here to help us navigate conflict.
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April 3, 2024 • 15 mins
Linguist and professor Anne Curzan encourages us all to lighten up when it comes to grammar rules.
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April 2, 2024 • 11 mins
As a teenager, Andrew Leland started to lose his sight. One day, in all likelihood, he will be blind. In his moving new memoir, "The Country of the Blind," he reckons with his soon-to-be blindness while also challenging us to think differently about our ablest world.
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April 1, 2024 • 15 mins
Carol Dweck’s "Mindset" transformed our view of individual potential. Now her protégé, Mary Murphy, is here to explain how mindset can transcend individuals and transform any group, team, or classroom.
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