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AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.
Carving out time for useful reflection is among the most valuable of leadership disciplines, explains “questionologist” Warren Berger.
"Business Adventures" by John Brooks was first published in 1969 and remains a must-read for all CEOs.
Chip Conley — founder and CEO of JDV Hospitality and Airbnb’s former Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy — maps out an inclusive path from hindsight to wisdom.
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic "The Personal MBA" — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
In the 1970s, James Lovelock proposed that the biosphere was not just green scruff quivering on Earth's surface. Instead, it managed to take over the geospheres.
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90’s kids know him from All That, Kenan & Kel, and Good Burger. This is Kel Mitchell, who sat down with us to share how he persevered through some of the hardest moments of his life.
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“The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Never ever.”
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
There's a fine line between ambition and ruthlessness.
You will need determination, humility, and courage if you are to master anything.
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Testing is an attempt to measure intelligence. But is intelligence really what’s getting measured? A neuroscientist weighs in:
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In the series, guests read aloud questions that pop out from a gumball machine [literally!]. The questions, like “who would you be if you stripped away all of your identities?”, […]
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From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity's journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
We must get happiness right — even when the world around us gets it wrong.
A perfect map is as useless as it is impossible to create.
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“Not only does Mother Nature not care about your happiness, she knows that we need lots of negative emotions to keep us alive.” Harvard happiness professor on why suffering IS necessary:
Can AI-powered “answer engines” replace the 10 blue links model?
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
In "Not Born Yesterday," author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.
When stuffed and staring down the last bite, you might hear your mother's voice in your mind.
The passage of time is something we all experience, as it takes us from one moment to the next. But could it all just be an illusion?
"The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy," philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
The true story of the shot that "reverberated through England" when science collided head-on with religion.
Big Think Business columnist Eric Markowitz prefaces his new series on long-term thinking with the experience that almost cut his life short.
The best of all investor attributes is easily attained — and unbeatable in combination with other advantages.
It's knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it's not magic that powers AI though; it's just math and data.