The Next Big Idea Daily

Jane Ferguson has covered nearly every war front and humanitarian crisis of our time. Today, she shares career advice inspired by her bestselling memoir, "No Ordinary Assignment." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Sep 202310min

Actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson explores the problem-solving benefits that spirituality gives us to create solutions for an increasingly challenging world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14 Sep 202314min

Today, our curator Adam Grant stops by to share the key takeaways from his #1 New York Times bestseller "Think Again." • If you're an Adam Grant fan, you'll love The Next Big Idea Club. Adam, Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink handpick their favorite books, and then we send them to your doorstep. Sign up at nextbigideaclub.com and use code DAILY for a special discount. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Sep 20238min

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, a leading political and intellectual historian and a certified fitness instructor, explores the complex and far-reaching implications of how our contemporary exercise culture took shape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12 Sep 202315min

Today, Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty member, serial entrepreneur, and investor David Dodson details the five skills every great manager needs to know if they want to get things done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Sep 20239min

To write "Beginners," Tom Vanderbilt embarked on a yearlong quest of learning just for the sake of it. Along the way, he interviewed dozens of experts about the psychology and science behind the benefits of becoming an adult beginner. Today, he joins us to explain how anyone can get better at beginning again — and why it's worth it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Sep 202313min

In "On Disinformation," Lee McIntyre shows how the war on facts began, and how ordinary citizens can fight back against the scourge of disinformation that is now threatening the very fabric of our society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 Sep 202312min

In "Imaginable," Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Sep 202314min