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What if engaging with great ideas could become one of your daily habits? What if some of the best tips for living better and working smarter were served up with your morning coffee, a hit of motivation guaranteed to start your day right? That’s the idea behind “The Next Big Idea Daily.” We work with hundreds of non-fiction authors — experts in productivity, creativity, leadership, communication, and other fields — boil down their big ideas into bite-sized chunks, and then offer you one each morning.

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What if engaging with great ideas could become one of your daily habits? What if some of the best tips for living better and working smarter were served up with your morning coffee, a hit of motivation guaranteed to start your day right? That’s the idea behind “The Next Big Idea Daily.” We work with hundreds of non-fiction authors — experts in productivity, creativity, leadership, communication, and other fields — boil down their big ideas into bite-sized chunks, and then offer you one each morning.

    How Small Actions Can Have a Big Impact

    How Small Actions Can Have a Big Impact

    Today, Adaira Landry and Resa Lewiss, a pair of Harvard-trained physicians, share actionable career advice from "MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact."

    • 15 min
    No-BS Secrets to Success

    No-BS Secrets to Success

    Jim VandeHei co-founded two highly influential news outlets, Politico and Axios. But as he explains in today's episode, his path to success was far from straightforward.

    • 14 min
    What 20th Century Anarchy Can Teach Us About Contemporary Polarization

    What 20th Century Anarchy Can Teach Us About Contemporary Polarization

    Steven Johnson returns to share some key insights from his new book "The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective."

    • 13 min
    A Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

    A Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

    To end the week, we'll hear from Katherine Morgan Schafler, a former on-site therapist at Google, who challenges us to change the way we look at perfectionism.

    • 17 min
    What a CBS News Correspondent Saw on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

    What a CBS News Correspondent Saw on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

    In "Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America," Jonathan Vigliotti shares the stories of regular Americans who are confronting the effects of climate disaster.

    • 15 min
    Can Big Tech Be Reined In?

    Can Big Tech Be Reined In?

    As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Tom Wheeler advocated for stronger legislation of big tech companies. In his new book, "Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?," he says there's more to be done.

    • 15 min

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