The Next Big Idea Daily

Today, journalist Macaela MacKenzie gives us an inside look at how women athletes are leading the fight for equality — on and off the field. 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Steven Kotler (“Gnar Country”) has been studying human performance for 30 years and teaching people from all walks of life how to achieve peak performance. But could his own advice work for him? 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

The Olympics are on! Have you been watching? We have. We can’t get enough. Which is why all this week we’ll be bringing you episodes that celebrate the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. We’ll be joined by athletes and experts who’ll share hard-won wisdom that we can apply in our ordinary, non-Olympic lives. Up first: Alexi Pappas. She ran the 10,000m at the 2016 games. She’s also a filmma...

Trust is at the heart of all relationships, and when trust is broken, those relationships can be tremendously difficult to put back together. Peter H. Kim, who teaches at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, has written a book called "How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired." Peter is a leading authority in the field of “tru...

We think that civil society is imposed by law. But what if that's not the case? What if it's something we create together? Guest: C. L. Skach (How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Be Civil Without the State) 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Today, Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum shares five big ideas from her new book "Cue the Sun!"

Today, we hear from Elias Dakwar, a psychiatrist addiction specialist, about his new book "The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning." 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

Change is universal. How we deal with it is not. Guest: April Rinne ("Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change") 📩 Check out our daily Substack and our weekly LinkedIn newsletter

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.

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

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

Why do the most successful startups disregard best practices? 📩 Sign up for our brand new daily Substack 📫 And check out our weekly newsletter on LinkedIn

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

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."

Today, Emily Amick, lawyer and former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Betches Media cofounder Sami Sage share five key insights from their New York Times bestseller "Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives."

American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution. Today, Corey Brettschneider shares the inspirational stories of the citizens who pushed back.

Today, journalist Julia Hotz reports on a radical new trend in healthcare: social prescribing. 📩 Can't get enough of The Next Big Idea Daily? Check out our brand new Substack: https://bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/

Michael McQueen has spent two decades teaching Fortune 500 leaders the skills they need to change people's minds. Now, he's here to share those skills with you.

Let's close out the week by hearing from Sharon Brous, one of the country's leading rabbis, about her new book "The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World." 📩 We launched a Substack! Check it out at https://bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/

R. Derek Black grew up with the founders of the American white nationalist movement but became an advocate for antiracism. How did that happen? 📩 We have a new Substack! Check it out at https://bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/

We are a nation of mythmakers. But in his new book, "A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America," Richard Slotkin argues those myths may be to blame for our current polarization.

A decade ago, Alan Townsend's wife and daughter were both diagnosed with life-threatening forms of brain cancer. In the face of this gut-wrenching news, he took solace in science.

After extreme stress nearly killed Kandi Wiens, she dedicated herself to understanding why some people seem to be naturally “immune” to burnout and what the rest of us can learn from them. Kandi's new book is "Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work."

To close out the week, we hear from Adam Moss, the legendary editor of New York magazine, about the personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art.

Today, Eric Weiner joins to discuss his new book, "Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life."