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The Next Big Idea Daily

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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. They distill their big ideas into bite-sized chunks, and we offer you one each

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11:39

Here Comes The Sun. Just In Time.

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/28

We’ve known about climate change for decades, even if most of the so-called solutions have felt too slow, too expensive, or too politically fraught. But pioneering environmentalist Bill McKibben says we’ve been overlooking the answer right in front of us, or rather right above us. The sun. In his new book, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization, Bill argues that solar power — once dismissed as niche and impractical — is now growing faster than any

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13:24

Blame the Babies: How Infants Sparked Human Speech

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2025/08/27

Why are we so much chattier than other species? Madeleine Beekman has a surprising answer: blame the babies. Madeleine is professor emerita of evolutionary biology at the University of Sydney, and in her new book, The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why, she explains that due to a series of evolutionary accidents, human infants were born so helpless that survival depended on coordinating care. Language, she argues, evolved as a kind of project-management system for baby-rearing. In

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Drowning in Meetings, Emails, and Chaos? There's a...

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2025/08/26

You’re busy. Your team is busy. Everyone’s working hard. But for all that effort, does it ever feel like not much actually gets done? According to today’s guests, the culprit usually isn’t laziness — it’s lousy workflow design. Emails that should’ve been meetings, meetings that should’ve been emails, and half-finished projects clogging the system. In their new book, There’s Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work, MIT Sloan professors

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There's Probably a Con Artist in Your Life Right Now....

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/25

Most of us like to think we could spot a con artist. But according to Emmy-winning television producer and investigative podcaster Johnathan Walton, the truth is much scarier: Scammers don’t look like strangers. They look like friends, neighbors, even soulmates. In his new book ⁠Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves⁠, Walton draws from his own jaw-dropping experience of being conned out of nearly $100,000 by someone he considered family. The good news? He

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15:36

How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/22

Even in good office environments, there are inevitably colleagues who are challenging to deal with. But not dealing with them isn’t really a choice. Luckily, Amy Gallo is here to help. Her book is Getting Along.📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

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12:09

Want to Make Better Decisions? Pretend You’re Someone...

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2025/08/21

Conventional wisdom says that great leaders roll up their sleeves, get in the trenches, and sweat the small stuff. But what if that’s only half the story? According to former nuclear submarine captain L. David Marquet and organizational psychologist Michael A. Gillespie, the real superpower of great leaders isn’t proximity — it’s distance. In their new book, Distancing: How Great Leaders Reframe to Make Better Decisions, they show that stepping back — psychologically, emotionally, imaginatively —

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12:28

The Hidden Cost of People-Pleasing

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/20

Most of us worry about what others think of us. While this is probably a useful survival instinct, it can also turn into a kind of neurotic rumination, leading us to prioritize people-pleasing over our own needs. Why we do this, and how we can move past it, is the topic of the new book Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You by psychotherapist Meg Josephson. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want

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15:29

Want to Outsmart AI? Ask an Elite Soldier.

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/19

We live in a complex world that’s only getting harder to navigate. The pace is faster, the problems are messier, and the future is tougher to predict. So how can your brain possibly keep up? Should we outsource everything to AI? Or is there a deeper, older intelligence we’re overlooking? That’s the question Angus Fletcher asks in his new book out today, Primal Intelligence: You Are Smarter Than You Know. Angus is a professor of story science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative, a consultant to U.S

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How to Run Your Life Like a Startup

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2025/08/18

Happiness might not sound like a business strategy, but Arthur C. Brooks—Harvard professor, Atlantic columnist, and all-around happiness guru—says it’s the most important metric of all. In his new book The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life, Arthur argues that your life is a startup, and you’re the founder, CEO, and maybe even the unpaid intern. Which means you’ve got to manage your most important asset: yourself.📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you

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How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/15

How can you break out of the endless cycle of blah and create the kind of interesting, meaningful life you seek?📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

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13:05

Anti-Aging Is Overrated. Joy Is the Real Fountain of...

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2025/08/14

When we talk about aging, we often hear about lifespan (how long you live) or healthspan (how well you live). But what about joyspan? That’s the question gerontologist Dr. Kerry Burnight is asking in her new book by that name, Joyspan: The Art and Science of Thriving in Life's Second Half.📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the

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15:48

Money Isn’t Real—Here’s Why That Matters

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2025/08/13

Journalist Paul Vigna has spent years covering crypto and asking hard questions about finance. He’s written a new book called The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin and in it he argues that money is less of a tool and more of a kind of religious object — a myth fueled by faith, weaponized by greed, and now so central to our lives that we barely question it. But maybe we should. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you

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7:49

That Little Voice in Your Head? It’s Smarter Than You...

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2025/08/12

Do you ever just know something? You get a gut feeling about a person or a situation — a feeling you can’t quite explain, but more often than not happens to be right? It can feel like magic, but it’s actually neuroscience. Today, we’re hearing from behavioral scientist Laura Huang, author of You Already Know: The Science of Mastering Your Intuition. In the book, she explains that gut feelings are actually fast, subconscious calculations — your brain drawing on data, memory, and lived experience to

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Feel Like a Number? Learn How to Beat the System.

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/11

In Robin Hood Math, mathematics professor Noah Giansiracusa shows how understanding a little math can help you push back against a world that keeps reducing you to a number. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

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11:35

Reality Bites: Why Your Teeth Matter More Than You Think

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/08

Author and zoologist Bill Schutt joins us to make the case that chompers have made vertebrates dominant on the planet, and how, in the future, dentists might be a dying breed. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

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14:31

Arguing About Politics Never Works. This Does.

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/07

In her new book Don’t Talk About Politics, Sarah Stein Lubrano explores a radical idea: that people don’t think their way into new beliefs — they live their way into them. If you want to shift hearts and minds, you’ve got to start with experiences, relationships, and community. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day

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11:43

Have a Head? Then You Should Understand Headaches.

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/06

Despite affecting more people than diabetes or depression, headaches are still under-researched, underfunded, and often dismissed. But science is finally starting to catch up, and what it’s revealing might change the way you think about pain, the brain, and how we treat illness. 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day

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7:46

Your Job Is Making You Sick

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/05

Leadership expert and serial entrepreneur Meghan French Dunbar says the way we work isn’t just outdated — it’s dangerous. In her powerful new book, This Isn’t Working, she offers a new blueprint for building lives and workplaces that prioritize well-being over burnout, and meaning over metrics.📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of

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Why Your Teen Thinks You’re an Idiot

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/04

If you’ve raised an adolescent (or been one), you already know it’s a life stage that can feel like an emotional rollercoaster—full of drama, defiance, and slammed doors. But what if all that chaos wasn’t a bug but a feature? Today we’re hearing from Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist Matt Richtel, who says adolescence is a brilliant, necessary phase of human development. In his new book How We Grow Up, Matt explains how teenage brains are wired to question, rebel, and innovate—and how

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14:14

You Are More Powerful Than You Think

The Next Big Idea Daily ·

2025/08/01

We all know what it looks like to use power badly. But how much do we really know about how to use power well? 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want more bite-sized insights from the best new nonfiction delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter

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