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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

Can We Cure Grief?

Journalist Cody Delistraty reports on the scientists and technologists searching for better and new ways to cope with loss. From chatting with a technologically recreated version of a lost loved one to opening your mind with the aid of hallucinogenic mushrooms, there's a whole new frontier that brims with fresh possibilities and pitfalls for how to cure grief. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Aug 13, 202413 min

The Truth You Need to Succeed

Bonnie Hammer worked her way up from the mailroom to become the “the most powerful woman in entertainment," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Today, she shares career-supercharging insights from her new book "15 Lies Women Are Told at Work ... and the Truth We Need to Succeed."

Aug 12, 202415 min

The Elastic Limits of Human Performance

To close out our Olympics-themed week, we're sharing one of our favorite book bites from our archive: Alex Hutchinson on his 2018 bestseller "Endure." 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Aug 09, 202415 min

Do Hard Things

What does it really mean to be tough? Performance coach Steve Magness has a surprising answer. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Aug 08, 202418 min

Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism

Today, journalist Macaela MacKenzie gives us an inside look at how women athletes are leading the fight for equality — on and off the field. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Aug 07, 202414 min

How to Stay Rad as You Grow Old

Steven Kotler (“Gnar Country”) has been studying human performance for 30 years and teaching people from all walks of life how to achieve peak performance. But could his own advice work for him? 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Aug 06, 202419 min

An Olympian’s Guide to Chasing Dreams and Befriending Pain

The Olympics are on! Have you been watching? We have. We can’t get enough. Which is why all this week we’ll be bringing you episodes that celebrate the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. We’ll be joined by athletes and experts who’ll share hard-won wisdom that we can apply in our ordinary, non-Olympic lives. Up first: Alexi Pappas. She ran the 10,000m at the 2016 games. She’s also a filmmaker and an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, a...

Aug 05, 202412 min

How Trust Works

Trust is at the heart of all relationships, and when trust is broken, those relationships can be tremendously difficult to put back together. Peter H. Kim, who teaches at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, has written a book called "How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired." Peter is a leading authority in the field of “trust repair,” and his research has been published in the world’s top scientific journals in management...

Aug 02, 202410 min

How to Be a Citizen

We think that civil society is imposed by law. But what if that's not the case? What if it's something we create together? Guest: C. L. Skach (How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Be Civil Without the State) 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Aug 01, 202413 min

The Invention of Reality TV

Today, Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum shares five big ideas from her new book "Cue the Sun!"

Jul 31, 202414 min

A New Framework for Understanding Addiction

Today, we hear from Elias Dakwar, a psychiatrist addiction specialist, about his new book "The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning." 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Jul 30, 202412 min

How to Thrive in a World That's Constantly Changing

Change is universal. How we deal with it is not. Guest: April Rinne ("Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change") 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Jul 29, 202414 min

Free Speech in an Age of Rage

Today: Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, on what we lose when we constrain free speech.

Jul 25, 202416 min

Triumph of the Yuppies

What can the Yuppies of the 1980s tell us about American culture today?

Jul 24, 202413 min

Why Some Startups Change the Future

Why do the most successful startups disregard best practices? 📩 Sign up for our brand new daily Substack 📫 And check out our weekly newsletter on LinkedIn

Jul 23, 202412 min

Democracy in Retrograde

Today, Emily Amick, lawyer and former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Betches Media cofounder Sami Sage share five key insights from their New York Times bestseller "Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives."

Jul 18, 202410 min

A Better Way of Thinking About Medicine and Healing

Today, journalist Julia Hotz reports on a radical new trend in healthcare: social prescribing. 📩 Can't get enough of The Next Big Idea Daily? Check out our brand new Substack: https://bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/

Jul 16, 202414 min

Mastering the Art of Changing Minds

Michael McQueen has spent two decades teaching Fortune 500 leaders the skills they need to change people's minds. Now, he's here to share those skills with you.

Jul 15, 202414 min

The Power of Connection in a Fractured World

Let's close out the week by hearing from Sharon Brous, one of the country's leading rabbis, about her new book "The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World." 📩 We launched a Substack! Check it out at https://bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/

Jul 12, 202414 min

A Journey From White Nationalism to Antiracism

R. Derek Black grew up with the founders of the American white nationalist movement but became an advocate for antiracism. How did that happen? 📩 We have a new Substack! Check it out at https://bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/

Jul 11, 202413 min

A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

A decade ago, Alan Townsend's wife and daughter were both diagnosed with life-threatening forms of brain cancer. In the face of this gut-wrenching news, he took solace in science.

Jul 09, 202410 min

Can You Become Immune to Burnout?

After extreme stress nearly killed Kandi Wiens, she dedicated herself to understanding why some people seem to be naturally “immune” to burnout and what the rest of us can learn from them. Kandi's new book is "Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work."

Jul 08, 202413 min

How Something Comes From Nothing

To close out the week, we hear from Adam Moss, the legendary editor of New York magazine, about the personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art.

Jul 05, 20249 min

What Would Ben Franklin Do?

Today, Eric Weiner joins to discuss his new book, "Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life."

Jul 04, 202412 min

The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us

Today, Keggie Carew shares a few key insights from her book "Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us," which the Guardian called "dazzling … [a] fantastic, heartfelt history of human-animal relations." 📩 Sign up for Michael's LinkedIn newsletter here

Jul 03, 202414 min