Ellen Marie Bennett turned a hunch into a multi-million dollar business. So can you. 🎟️ Grab a ticket to our event with Yuval Noah Harari at https://nextbigideaclub.com/events/ 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Jeff Karp went from the back of the class to opening his own research lab at Harvard. In this episode, he explains how he did it — and how the tools he used can help you thrive, too. 📕 Pick up a copy of Jeff's new book, "LIT: Life Ignition Tools" 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
For nearly 20 years, Wharton professor Zeke Hernandez has been studying immigration. Today, he makes an evidence-based argument for why newcomers benefit your community, your country, and you. 📕 The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Today, Ashish Kothari shares nine proven practices to overcome stress and live your best life. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
"You heretics!" That's probably what you'd say if we told you that sexual pleasure gave birth to religion. Sex and god? They're like oil and water, non-overlapping magisteria. But in a bold new book called "Sex, God, and the Brain," researcher and physician Andrew Newberg shows that the underlying biological mechanisms of spiritual and sexual experiences are identical. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Building on the lessons she learned as an award-winning TV news journalist, Jessica Chen introduces a new way of getting noticed at work, without being loud, aggressive, or boastful. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Today, Gary John Bishop offers insightful (if unorthodox) parenting advice from his recent book "Grow Up." 📩 Check out our daily Substack 🔗 The Next Big Idea Daily is produced in partnership with LinkedIn. Speaking of LinkedIn, have you checked out our LinkedIn newsletter? Sign up here
What is toxic beauty culture ― from Botox to Instagram filters ― doing to women and girls? Ellen Atlanta reports. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
Celebrated computer scientist and unabased AI optimist Ray Kurzweil says a future where nanorobots inhabit our brains is closer than you may think. His new book is "The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI." 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter
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
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."
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
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
Today, Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum shares five big ideas from her new book "Cue the Sun!"
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
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
We all want to be happy, but happiness always seems out of reach. Lucky for us, Stephanie Harrison ("New Happy") is here to change that.
Today: Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, on what we lose when we constrain free speech.
What can the Yuppies of the 1980s tell us about American culture today?
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
Jodi Wellman shares five key insights from "You Only Die Once."
Richard Deming is an award-winning poet and critic and is the director of Creative Writing at Yale University. Today, he shares big ideas from his new book "This Exquisite Loneliness."
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."
American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution. Today, Corey Brettschneider shares the inspirational stories of the citizens who pushed back.
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/
