Your Attention Is Being Hijacked. Here’s How to Take It Back.

Your Attention Is Being Hijacked. Here’s How to Take It Back.

Does this sound familiar: You sit down to do some real focused work, and within minutes you’ve checked your phone, opened three browser tabs, and mentally planned your lunch — all without realizing it. Our attention doesn’t just wander anymore. It’s being quietly, relentlessly pulled apart by a world designed to fragment it, and most of us have forgotten what real focus even feels like. Zelana Montminy is a behavioral scientist who advises Fortune 500 companies and her new book is called Finding Focus: OwnYour Attention in an Age of Distraction. 📚 Get a signed copy of Brené Brown's new book, Strong Ground when you sign up for an annual subscription to the Next Big Idea Club. Code DAILY gets you 20% off 📱 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

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Have a Head? Then You Should Understand Headaches.

Have a Head? Then You Should Understand Headaches.

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 ...

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Your Job Is Making You Sick

Your Job Is Making You Sick

Leadership expert and serial entrepreneur Meghan French Dunbar says the way we work isn’t just outdated — it’s dangerous.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 b...

5 Elo 202510min

Why Your Teen Thinks You’re an Idiot

Why Your Teen Thinks You’re an Idiot

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 wa...

4 Elo 202515min

You Are More Powerful Than You Think

You Are More Powerful Than You Think

We all know what it looks like to use power badly. But how much do we really know about how to use power well? 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩...

1 Elo 202516min

Want to Get Rich? Stop Taking Advice Meant for Millionaires.

Want to Get Rich? Stop Taking Advice Meant for Millionaires.

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...

31 Heinä 202513min

Want Better Relationships and More Focus? Try This Two-Minute Practice

Want Better Relationships and More Focus? Try This Two-Minute Practice

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 Plane...

30 Heinä 202514min

Why Your Team Sucks — And How to Fix It

Why Your Team Sucks — And How to Fix It

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. ...

29 Heinä 202515min

Take a Nap

Take a Nap

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. 📱 ...

28 Heinä 202516min

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