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Smart Skills
Why liminal spaces are your brain’s secret laboratory
Life's "in-between" stages pack unique cognitive benefits — if you know how to tap into them.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Business
AI will never be a shortcut to wisdom
Real understanding, argues Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.
Jeff DeGraff
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Business
The David Senra interview: “Use history as a form of leverage”
The host of the Founders podcast joins Big Think for a chat about success, obsession, business genius, human nature, and more.
Tim Brinkhof
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Mini Philosophy
The Nexus Method: How to make the most of what you learn
When your head is full of information, how can you actually make use of it?
Jonny Thomson
Book cover for "The Generalist Advantage" by Mansoor Soomro, PhD, next to text reading "an excerpt from," all set against a light green background—highlighting the value of generalist superpowers.
Business
The 6 superpowers of generalists: Leadership gold dust
From Apple to Airbnb to OpenAI the generalist mindset has been an invaluable source of advantage — and we can all learn from these successes.
Mansoor Soomro
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