The Next Big Idea

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Think bigger. Create better. Live smarter. Ideas are coming at you every day from all directions. Where do you even start? Hosted by Rufus Griscom, and featuring thought-leaders Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink, THE NEXT BIG IDEA brings you the most groundbreaking ideas that have the power to change the way you live, work, and think. Each episode dives deep into one big idea through immersive storytelling, narration and curator interviews with the most interesting authors at work today.

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FREE MONEY: Why Andrew Yang...

01.21.2020

Andrew Yang has a pretty bleak vision for the future. The way he sees it, we’re staring down the barrel of a techno-apocalypse. Robots will replace millions of workers. Income inequality will skyrocket. And social isolation will become the new ...

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01.21.2020 FREE MONEY: Why Andrew Yang Thinks a Giveaway Can Save the Economy Andrew Yang has a pretty bleak vision for the future. The way he sees it, we’re staring down the barrel of a techno-apocalypse. Robots will replace millions of workers. Income inequality will skyrocket. And social isolation will become the new ...
01.14.2020 HABITS: How to Let Go of The Old and Bring in the New Why is it so hard to break bad habits and replace them with good ones? You may think it all comes down to willpower. But social psychologist Wendy Wood says that if you really want to change your life, then ...
01.07.2020 GATHERING: How to Make Our Time Together Meaningful Why do so many of our get-togethers feel awkward and unproductive? Priya Parker, author of “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters,” says it’s because most of us don’t know how to transform stuffy events—from conferences ...
12.24.2019 FUTURE: Can We Build a More Generous World In this episode, we’re peering into the future with Kickstarter co-founder and CEO Yancey Strickler. He’s got a new book out called “This Could Be Our Future,” and it’s all about transforming our world into a more kind and generous ...
12.17.2019 SUCCESS: The Dirty Secret of Getting Ahead Most of us are taught that hard work and talent are the keys to getting ahead. Turns out it’s not so easy. In his new book, “The Meritocracy Trap,” Yale professor Daniel Markovits says meritocracy isn’t leveling the playing field. ...
12.10.2019 TRUST: Malcolm Gladwell on How We Talk To Strangers Roses are red, violets are blue, and Malcolm Gladwell has written yet another bestseller. It's called "Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know," and it's all about the perils of trusting people we don't ...
12.03.2019 POWER: Why You Have More Than You Think Colleges, businesses, and bureaucracies have long operated on an "old power" model — rigid hierarchies that rule from the top down. But Henry Timms says that paradigm is going extinct. In his book, "New Power: How Power Works in Our ...
11.26.2019 PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality What you see is what you get, right? Nope. In his mind-bending new book, "The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes," Don Hoffman argues that what we see, smell, touch, and taste are illusions. Reality, ...
11.19.2019 UNCENSORED: What Free Speech Debates Teach Us About Empathy As a college student, Zachary Wood ignited a national debate when he invited controversial speakers — anti-feminists, climate-change deniers, and self-proclaimed racists — to lecture on campus. Critics accused him of promoting dangerous ideas. But in his new memoir, "Uncensored," ...
11.12.2019 CONFLICT: How to Have More Productive Disagreements Have you ever had one of those arguments — whether with a friend or a colleague, a loved one or a perfect stranger — that you both vehemently disagree, and it boils your blood? Too often these days, arguments with ...
11.05.2019 JOYFUL: Why Ordinary Objects Can Make You Extraordinarily Happy Conventional wisdom tells us that real joy comes from within: from exercise or meditation, acts of service or the way we look at the world—pretty much anything except material possessions. But author/designer Ingrid Fetell Lee offers a different opinion in ...
10.29.2019 CODERS: The Invisible Architects That Shape Our Lives Our world is awash in code, and those zeroes and ones aren't as impersonal as you might think. In his new book, "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World," journalist Clive Thompson provides an ...
10.22.2019 RACIAL BIAS: Why We Have It and What We Can Do About It Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt has spent years studying how racial bias affects all of us — yes, all — in ways we don't realize. In her new book, “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think ...
10.15.2019 INDISTRACTABLE: Staying Focused in a World of Distractions Nir Eyal’s last book, “Hooked,” taught Silicon Valley how to make addictive technology. In his new book, “Indistractable,” he gives you the tools to take back control of your attention and your life. Join the conversation at NextBigIdeaClub.com. Get an ...
10.15.2019 RANGE: Why Generalists Succeed in a Specialists’ World You know Malcolm Gladwell's “10,000-Hour Rule.” But did you know that, according to David Epstein, it doesn't work? That's what Epstein argues in his new book, “Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World.” In this episode, Malcom Gladwell talks ...
10.01.2019 Introducing The Next Big Idea The Next Big Idea premieres October 15th.

The Next Big Idea

What's The Next Big Idea about?

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The Next Big Idea episodes:

FREE MONEY: Why Andrew Yang Thinks a Giveaway Can Save the Economy

HABITS: How to Let Go of The Old and Bring in the New

GATHERING: How to Make Our Time Together Meaningful

FUTURE: Can We Build a More Generous World

SUCCESS: The Dirty Secret of Getting Ahead

TRUST: Malcolm Gladwell on How We Talk To Strangers

POWER: Why You Have More Than You Think

PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality

UNCENSORED: What Free Speech Debates Teach Us About Empathy

CONFLICT: How to Have More Productive Disagreements

JOYFUL: Why Ordinary Objects Can Make You Extraordinarily Happy

CODERS: The Invisible Architects That Shape Our Lives

RACIAL BIAS: Why We Have It and What We Can Do About It

INDISTRACTABLE: Staying Focused in a World of Distractions

RANGE: Why Generalists Succeed in a Specialists’ World

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