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. They distill their big ideas into bite-sized chunks, and we offer you one each morning. Part of the LinkedIn Podcast Network.
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August 6, 2025 • 11 mins
Despite affecting more people than diabetes or depression, headaches are still under-researched, underfunded, and often dismissed. But science is finally starting to catch up, and what it’s revealing might change the way you think about pain, the brain, and how we treat illness.
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August 5, 2025 • 7 mins
Leadership expert and serial entrepreneur Meghan French Dunbar says the way we work isn’t just outdated — it’s dangerous. In her powerful new book, This Isn’t Working, she offers a new blueprint for building lives and workplaces that prioritize well-being over burnout, and meaning over metrics.
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August 4, 2025 • 13 mins
If you’ve raised an adolescent (or been one), you already know it’s a life stage that can feel like an emotional rollercoaster—full of drama, defiance, and slammed doors. But what if all that chaos wasn’t a bug but a feature? Today we’re hearing from Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist Matt Richtel, who says adolescence is a brilliant, necessary phase of human development. In his new book How We Grow Up, Matt explains ...
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August 1, 2025 • 14 mins
We all know what it looks like to use power badly. But how much do we really know about how to use power well?
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July 31, 2025 • 11 mins
Nicholas Maggiulli is here to flip your concept of wealth on its head. In his new book The Wealth Ladder, he argues that building financial freedom isn’t about budgeting harder or dreaming bigger — it’s about recognizing where you are on the wealth spectrum, and then following the right strategy for that level. Whether you’ve got ten bucks in the bank or ten million, Nick has a plan to help you enjoy what you’ve got without risking...
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July 30, 2025 • 11 mins
Today, we hear from Julian Treasure, a sound expert whose TED talks have racked up more than 160 million views. In his new book, Sound Affects: How Sound Shapes Our Lives, Our Wellbeing, and Our Planet, he delivers a kind of public service announcement for your ears. Because sound isn’t just background noise — it’s shaping your health, your focus, your mood, even your spending habits. The good news? By becoming better listeners, we...
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July 29, 2025 • 13 mins
Organizational psychologist and University of New Hampshire professor Vanessa Urch Druskat has spent decades studying what separates the best teams from the rest. Spoiler: It’s not hiring superstars. It’s about creating emotionally intelligent norms.
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July 28, 2025 • 14 mins
Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli explains how doing nothing might be the best thing you do all day. His new book is The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life.
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July 25, 2025 • 17 mins
In When You Wonder, You're Learning, Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski bring the lessons of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood into the digital age, helping parents raise more creative, curious, and caring kids.
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July 24, 2025 • 16 mins
You know that feeling when someone’s really listening to you, not just nodding while waiting to talk, but actually tuning in? It’s rare. In our noisy, fast-talking world, real listening has become a lost art. Emily Kasriel, a former BBC journalist and executive coach, wants to change that. In her new book Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends, and Foes, she explores how we can tune out the noise and trul...
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July 23, 2025 • 9 mins
In Invisible Rivals, Jonathan Goodman argues that the real story of human nature isn’t about picking sides: it’s about understanding how our ancient instincts for cooperation and competition are still playing out today.
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July 22, 2025 • 15 mins
Bree Groff argues that fun isn’t frivolous. It’s the secret to better teams, better lives, and better business.
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July 21, 2025 • 11 mins
According to Wendy Johnson, real wellness starts with community, nature, and rethinking everything we’ve been told.
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July 18, 2025 • 12 mins
Fred Dust, former senior partner and global managing director at the legendary design firm IDEO, is here to teach you how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful.
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July 17, 2025 • 12 mins
In his new book, Shamanism: The Timeless Religion, anthropologist Manvir Singh travels from Indonesian rainforests to Burning Man in search of what makes shamanic traditions so enduring — and so human. It turns out that when life feels uncertain, people everywhere still seek out ritual, healing, and a little magic.
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July 16, 2025 • 11 mins
Anne Marie Chaker went from journalist to competitive bodybuilder at 50. Now, with her book Lift, she wants to change how we think about aging, power, and what our bodies are capable of.
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July 15, 2025 • 8 mins
The most hated word in English might just be a storytelling superpower—and a tool for empathy, nuance, and emotional truth.
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July 14, 2025 • 9 mins
When we talk about the forces that shape history, we usually hear about wars, revolutions, inventions… maybe the occasional love affair. But there’s one powerful force that’s rarely acknowledged—because, well, it makes people uncomfortable.
That force is drugs.
In his new book Human History on Drugs, writer and historian Sam Kelly uncovers the surprising, often scandalous ways that everything from opium to cocaine has shaped le...
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July 11, 2025 • 15 mins
Celebrated psychologist Paul Bloom shares five key insights from his book The Sweet Spot.
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July 10, 2025 • 6 mins
Once just a word, now a worldview — how a 20th-century invention came to shape everything from your phone to your future.
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