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The Next Big Idea Daily

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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

The Small Shifts That Lead to Big Change

Anne-Laure Le Cunff shows how an experimental mindset can turn challenges into self-discovery and doubt into opportunity. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Mar 11, 20259 min

Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to EVs

Electric vehicles are here to stay. What does that mean for the automotive industry, the world, and you? 📕 Inevitable by Mike Colias 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Mar 10, 202512 min

The Key to a Good Diet

For the last few years, philosopher Julian Baggini has been exploring the hidden forces that shape our food choices — from the debates over organic vs. conventional farming to the global inequalities baked into our supply chains to the science of the optimal diet. He joins us to share a few key insights from his book How the World Eats. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered stra...

Mar 07, 202515 min

Think You’re Too Smart to Fall for a Scam? Think Again.

What makes perps tick, victims so gullible, and whistleblowers so morally righteous? Kelly Richmond Pope reports. Her book is “Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry.” 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Mar 06, 202519 min

Can the Stress of Loss Be an Opportunity for Healing?

In The Grieving Body, Grief expert and neuroscientist Mary-Frances O’Connor shows the impact grief — and life’s other major stressors — can have on the human body, both good and bad. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Mar 05, 202511 min

How Innovation Happens at Microsoft

Microsoft insiders Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin explain how the tech giant has managed to stay at the forefront of innovation for half a century. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Mar 04, 202511 min

How to Move from Surviving to Thriving

Steve Magness shares five key insights from his new book "Win the Inside Game." 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Mar 03, 202521 min

How Hollywood’s Biggest Flops Changed Film History

Tim Robey tells an alternate history of Hollywood, starring misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels, and catastrophic literary adaptations. Turns out Tinseltown’s biggest blunders reveal a lot about the fragile alchemy of movie magic. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 28, 202519 min

The Art of Healthy Arrogance

Will Packer is the author of "Who Better Than You?" 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 27, 202516 min

The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication

Management professor and communication expert Andrew Brodsky shares his framework for navigating the digital workplace. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 26, 202518 min

How to Break Up With Your Phone

Let’s face it — your relationship with your phone is toxic. Luckily, Catherine Price is here to help. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 24, 202518 min

The Boys Are Not All Right

Boys and men are struggling. What should we do about it? 📕 Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 21, 202512 min

How to Help Your Kids Learn, Live, and Feel Better

Have a teen who's checked out, stressed out, or both? Then this episode is for you. Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop have spent the last five years investigating why so many children lose their love of learning in adolescence. The result is "The Disengaged Teen," a book that Adam Grant calls "an engaging, evidence-based, and practical read about how to develop a generation of lifelong learners.” 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more ...

Feb 20, 202513 min

Can You Upgrade Your Brain in 15 Minutes a Day?

Today, Elizabeth Ricker, an MIT and Harvard-trained brain researcher turned Silicon Valley technologist, shows you how a few minutes of neurohacking can help you work better, think faster, and get more done. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 19, 202517 min

It's Cool to Be Kind

Graham Allcott argues the key to success is kindness. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 18, 202517 min

Jay Shetty’s Rules of Love

Valentine’s Day is behind us, but don’t let your relationship slip into screensaver mode. Relationships need ongoing attention and care. That’s why we’ve invited Jay Shetty — author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk and host of the hit podcast On Purpose — to share insights from his latest book, 8 Rules of Love. Get ready for practical advice that will keep your love life vibrant all year long. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you list...

Feb 17, 202518 min

Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness

Happy Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re celebrating with roses or rolling your eyes at all that lovey-dovey stuff, it's a good time to reflect on an essential truth: we are wired for connection. To explain more about that evolutionary need — and how, along with autonomy, it's the pathway to happiness — we're joined by William von Hippel, author of "The Social Paradox." 📕 Preorder William's book here 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more ...

Feb 14, 202514 min

How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World

Today: Tim Marshall, author of the new book "The Future of Geography." 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 13, 202516 min

Is Climate Change Messing With Your Brain?

Recovering neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern stops by to share a few key insights from his book "The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains." 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 12, 202514 min

The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life

Leslie Zane shares five key insights from her new book "The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life." 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 11, 202513 min

Does AI Have Rights?

Philosopher Jeff Sebo calls for a revolution in ethics, suggesting we expand our “moral circle” to everything from insects to AI. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 10, 202516 min

How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One

You don’t have to be naturally optimistic to benefit from the power of positivity. You just have to follow these five easy steps. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 07, 202511 min

We Can Win the Fight Against Climate Change. Here's How.

Investor, activist, and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer shares five key insights from his new book "Cheaper, Faster, Better." 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

Feb 06, 202511 min

The Path to Inspired Leadership

Social psychologist and leadership expert Adam Galinsky says there are two kinds of leaders: those who inspire and those who infuriate. Which will you be? 📕 Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Transform your day in 10 minutes. Enjoy daily, bite‑sized insights from breakthrough nonfiction books — audio or text — straight from the authors at https://bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/

Feb 05, 202515 min

What's Your Hidden Genius?

The key to a fulfilling and successful life isn’t just about passion or hard work — it’s about understanding and harnessing your innate aptitudes. 📕 Your Hidden Genius by Betsy Wills and Alex Ellison 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📩 Check out our Substack

Feb 04, 20259 min

Technology Is Tearing Us Apart

Faster, easier communication was supposed to make the world better. Instead, it made us miserable. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? For answers, we turn to Nicholas Carr, author of the new book “Superbloom.” 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Feb 03, 202516 min

How to Be Enough

Clinical psychologist Ellen Hendriksen on how to be good to yourself. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Jan 31, 202517 min

The Transformative Power of Inclusion

Anne Chow, the former CEO of AT&T Business, shares a new approach to inclusive leadership that goes beyond DEI. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Jan 30, 202515 min

The DOSE Effect

Neuroscientist TJ Power provides a powerful framework for enhancing your quality of life through the regulation of four key hormones: Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins (DOSE). 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Jan 29, 202515 min