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Former sports agent Molly Fletcher translates the discipline of great athletes into a framework for achievement in any field.
George Raveling — the iconic leader who brought Michael Jordan to Nike — shares with Big Think a lifetime of priceless wisdom learned at the crossroads of sports and business.
Whether it’s LeBron's shooting patterns or your corporate AI strategy, actionable insights are the key to turning data into meaningful results.
Tennis pro Mardy Fish and Spanx founder Sara Blakely both turned failure into their greatest asset.
Sahil Bloom explores why wealth isn’t just about money, but about knowing which type of wealth matters most in each season of life.
Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
"Ultimately, the choice rests with each individual: whether to take the convenient route of allowing AI to handle our critical thinking, or to preserve this essential cognitive process for ourselves."
An interview with renowned mythologist Martin Shaw about persona, presence, and how to spend life's finite time.
People who've never been partnered tend to be less extraverted, less conscientious, and more neurotic.
Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.
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In many ways, the rising anti-phone fervor in schools mirrors moral panics of the past.
Sunita Sah hopes that by redefining defiance, we can build societies that allow people to live more authentic lives.
Today's philosophy students would be justified in asking, "What does any of this have to do with living?"
New research is uncovering why we eat first with our expectations.
Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.
"I think it's about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages."
"Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities."
Can we learn to always look on the bright side of life?
Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
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The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.
Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.
One alchemist's search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.
MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.
You're a moody person. You have to be — because understanding moods philosophically can be crucial to your work-life.
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When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.