How to Run Your Life Like a Startup
Happiness might not sound like a business strategy, but Arthur C. Brooks—Harvard professor, Atlantic columnist, and all-around happiness guru—says it’s the most important metric of all. In his new boo...
18 Elo 202513min
How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
How can you break out of the endless cycle of blah and create the kind of interesting, meaningful life you seek? 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen ...
15 Elo 202516min
Anti-Aging Is Overrated. Joy Is the Real Fountain of Youth.
When we talk about aging, we often hear about lifespan (how long you live) or healthspan (how well you live). But what about joyspan? That’s the question gerontologist Dr. Kerry Burnight is asking in...
14 Elo 202515min
Money Isn’t Real—Here’s Why That Matters
Journalist Paul Vigna has spent years covering crypto and asking hard questions about finance. He’s written a new book called The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became...
13 Elo 202518min
That Little Voice in Your Head? It’s Smarter Than You Think.
Do you ever just know something? You get a gut feeling about a person or a situation — a feeling you can’t quite explain, but more often than not happens to be right? It can feel like magic, but it’s ...
12 Elo 202510min
Feel Like a Number? Learn How to Beat the System.
In Robin Hood Math, mathematics professor Noah Giansiracusa shows how understanding a little math can help you push back against a world that keeps reducing you to a number. 📱 Follow The Next Big Id...
11 Elo 202510min
Reality Bites: Why Your Teeth Matter More Than You Think
Author and zoologist Bill Schutt joins us to make the case that chompers have made vertebrates dominant on the planet, and how, in the future, dentists might be a dying breed. 📱 Follow The Next Big ...
8 Elo 202514min
Arguing About Politics Never Works. This Does.
In her new book Don’t Talk About Politics, Sarah Stein Lubrano explores a radical idea: that people don’t think their way into new beliefs — they live their way into them. If you want to shift hearts ...
7 Elo 202517min
