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Philippe Petit calls himself something of a Luddite. We live in a world in which we are slaves to our gadgets. His brand of art calls for a level of focus not possible when tethered to a device.

High-wire artist Philippe Petit explains how to practice creativity while sleeping.

High-wire artist Philippe Petit describes his process of compressing chaos in order to build a model for creative output.

How to you inspire people? How do you touch an audience? High-wire artist Philippe Petit explains the secret is to not try at all. Instead, be yourself.

High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who four decades ago performed illegally between the World Trade Center towers, explains how his personal brand of outlaw creativity can be harnessed to inspire and solve problems.

Innovation expert Michael Schrage explores the major questions that have risen from the recent Sony hack. He questions whether hacking and cyberattacks should be treated as mere misdemeanors or as more serious affronts to personal freedom.

People hate mathematics because they fear and don't understand it. Mathematician Edward Frenkel envisions a world where that's no longer an issue.

Money is one of the hardest things to talk about in a family. Bruce Feiler offers tips for how to facilitate financial conversation with your children.

Happy families play together. That's the basis of why it's important to travel together. Author Bruce Feiler walks through the best ways for families to explore their world without succumbing to stress.

All families fight -- it's just a fact of life. The highest functioning families are the ones that manage conflict best.

Research shows that eating together brings a family closer and helps children develop. The problem is many Americans don't do it.

Happy families combat the stress of the modern age by always adapting. The system out of which this adaptation occurs is the weekly family meeting.

Author Bruce Feiler lists the three major family shifts of the past generation and explains how exploring these shifts led him to write his latest book.

Lawrence H. Summers leads a six-part workshop on employing rational, data-driven thinking to make complex decisions.

Author and entrepreneur Andrew Keen argues that the free business model employed by Google and Facebook is "the original sin" of the Internet and that it's corrupted everything around it.

Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk explores his field's long, complex, and stubborn history with traumatic experiences.

Kip Tindell, CEO of the Container Store, explains the secret to maintaining honor and integrity while also being a top-notch salesperson.

Elon Musk is the ambitious founder and CEO of SpaceX, a private company that has won more launch contracts than anyone else in the launch business. In this lesson excerpt, Musk explains his approach to innovation in the space race. The full lesson, available on Big Think+, offers strategies for identifying an industry worthy of disruption.

Composer Peter Baumann examines the mind's overzealous thirst for information and how anyone can calm their attention.

Peter Baumann explains the pervasiveness and usefulness of bias in human cognition.