TikTok gave an old practice a terrible name. Neuroscience explains why it actually works.

“We can use neuroscience and tools from psychology to learn how to take advantage of anxiety.” From Zen Buddhism to flow state, these 3 experts explain how to hack your brain.

When can a kid play outside alone? Two parents, one stranger, and the state collide.

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on why reflective self-consciousness separates us from intelligent machines.

Rubin joins Big Think for a chat about her one-minute rule, why self-knowledge is key to a good life, and more.

In this excerpt from Wired on Wall Street, Tom Hardin (aka "Tipper X") shares how he began gathering intelligence on insider trading for the FBI.

The actor, comedian, and marijuana cultivator on collaboration, success, and overcoming nerves — in business and life.

The benefits of mathematical literacy reach far beyond the realm of numbers and equations.

Labels help your brain make sense of a complex world, but when self-attached, those same labels can convince you that you're unable to grow.

"It's this modern idea of doing voluntary discretionary, physical activity for the sake of health and fitness."

People don't want you to buy their stories — they want you to listen to them.

Psychologist Chris Moore reveals why guilt and anxiety lead us to the compassion necessary to earn forgiveness.

“The problem with cognitive scripts is when we use them to make more important decisions in our lives, we let our choices be driven by those stories that we have internalized that tell us how we're supposed to behave in a certain situation.”

Kuang discusses the rituals, routines, and words of advice that have helped her write six best-selling novels in one decade.

“It's certainly clear that the issues of boys and men haven't gone away in the last few years. If anything, they're getting even more attention, which is good when it's the right kind of attention.”

In this excerpt from "The Art of Spending Money," Morgan Housel lays out the spending and financial habits guaranteed to end in regret.

“The way my mind works is just out of anxiety and catastrophization.”

Life's "in-between" stages pack unique cognitive benefits — if you know how to tap into them.

Acclaimed actor and director Jesse Eisenberg, who understands job-related anxiety, advocates for channeling these emotions toward desired outcomes, sharing methods from his diverse film industry experience to help manage fear, foster community in leadership, and pursue goals authentically.

This class equips participants with strategies from experts like David Goggins, Amy Cuddy, and Dr. Rudolph Tanzi to enhance mental strength and emotional well-being through mindfulness, body-mind techniques, and compassionate emotional processing, ultimately fostering resilience and personal growth.

This class, featuring insights from experts like Amy Cuddy and Sylvia Ann Hewlett, explores the concept of presence in communication and leadership, offering strategies to enhance executive presence, build confidence, and effectively manage performance anxiety for professional success.

It's OK to hate a frigid pond.

“Nothing about human behavior makes sense except in the light of culture and in anthropology, and we need to understand the cultural component to our behaviors as well.”

5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.

“Anxiety is focused on things that are important to you in life. That is the key.”

Our minds crave simple, linear narratives. But society rarely follows a straight line.

Three doctors break down brain function, somatic awareness, and how to recover from bad experiences.

“By not focusing on the outcome and instead designing a tiny experiment, what you can do is letting go of any definition of success, letting go of that binary results that you're looking for, and instead focusing something that makes you feel curious and that you want to explore.”

"Virtually everything we're taught about sexuality for the first two decades of our lives is wrong."

“CIA classifies their secrets according to different terminology. There's confidential secrets, there are secret level secrets, and then there are top secret secrets. And the way that they define each of these different levels actually has to do with the impact that would occur if the secret became public knowledge.”