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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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    • Education
    • 4.8 • 55 Ratings

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.

    The World Gets Happiness Wrong. Here's How to Get It Right.

    The World Gets Happiness Wrong. Here's How to Get It Right.

    We all want to be happy, but happiness always seems out of reach. Lucky for us, Stephanie Harrison ("New Happy") is here to change that.

    • 11 min
    Free Speech in an Age of Rage

    Free Speech in an Age of Rage

    Today: Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, on what we lose when we constrain free speech.

    • 15 min
    Triumph of the Yuppies

    Triumph of the Yuppies

    What can the Yuppies of the 1980s tell us about American culture today?

    • 12 min
    Why Some Startups Change the Future

    Why Some Startups Change the Future

    Why do the most successful startups disregard best practices?
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    • 12 min
    How to Make It to the End with No Regrets

    How to Make It to the End with No Regrets

    Jodi Wellman shares five key insights from "You Only Die Once."

    • 12 min
    What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity

    What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity

    Richard Deming is an award-winning poet and critic and is the director of Creative Writing at Yale University. Today, he shares big ideas from his new book "This Exquisite Loneliness."

    • 12 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
55 Ratings

55 Ratings

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Wow!

I say wow for this podcast opened my mine to self. Thank you

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Short. Sweet. Valuable.

Fits well into my morning routine. A daily cup of coffee for my brain.

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These are great

Michael is a super interlocutor—don’t miss the wonderful convo with Adam Gopnik!

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