Mind and Behavior

Mind and Behavior

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Ethan Kross, psychologist and author of "Shift," explains how negative emotions help us live safely and well.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Performance psychology reveals the mental techniques elite athletes use to build and maintain their confidence.
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Professional sport is a hotbed of "performance anxiety” — and to start managing pressure in all settings, we need to properly define it.
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Embedding any leadership philosophy in sports demands a selective and multi-disciplinary approach.
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Former sports agent Molly Fletcher translates the discipline of great athletes into a framework for achievement in any field.
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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.
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Tennis pro Mardy Fish and Spanx founder Sara Blakely both turned failure into their greatest asset.
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Sahil Bloom explores why wealth isn’t just about money, but about knowing which type of wealth matters most in each season of life.
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Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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"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."
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An interview with renowned mythologist Martin Shaw about persona, presence, and how to spend life's finite time.
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7mins
From anger to awe: How one woman overcame “debilitating trauma” to conquer a near-impossible 53-hour swim at 64.
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People who've never been partnered tend to be less extraverted, less conscientious, and more neurotic.
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Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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In many ways, the rising anti-phone fervor in schools mirrors moral panics of the past.
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Sunita Sah hopes that by redefining defiance, we can build societies that allow people to live more authentic lives.
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Today's philosophy students would be justified in asking, "What does any of this have to do with living?"
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New research is uncovering why we eat first with our expectations.
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Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.
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"I think it's about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages."
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"Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities."
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It can be overwhelming to navigate the pains of life, but the iconic self-help author believes you can find yourself by answering just four questions
Unlikely Collaborators
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Radically improve your work-life speaking and presentation skills with a technique used by musicians and brand-name politicians.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.