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Resilience
When leaders embrace positive personal energy, everyone feels the benefits — in trust, innovation and creativity.
The ozone hole was going to destroy life as we know it, but an unprecedented global effort fixed the problem.
Long-lived companies show that resilience comes not from individual toughness, but from the strength of the systems around us.
Cognitive flexibility, opportunistic survival, and social cooperation have allowed rats to thrive in conditions that wipe out other species.
What a fragile flower can teach us about resilience, death, and becoming someone new.
A day in the Sierra Nevada with Tommy Caldwell reveals how pain, trauma, and “elective hardship” became the foundation of his fortitude.
When can a kid play outside alone? Two parents, one stranger, and the state collide.
AI is unlocking unprecedented capabilities — and exposing new vulnerabilities just as quickly.
When applied blindly, resilience can do real harm to our health and our ability to change broken systems.
Classic literature reveals how resilience can be both a source of strength in troubled times — and a dangerous ideal.
Every generation has faced a version of this moment — the question has never been what our tools can do, but what we choose to do with them.
Rubin joins Big Think for a chat about her one-minute rule, why self-knowledge is key to a good life, and more.
Ambition. Descent. Wisdom.
The actor, comedian, and marijuana cultivator on collaboration, success, and overcoming nerves — in business and life.
The actor learned control, endurance, and focus on-set. Those lessons became the foundation of his real-world fight with addiction and self-hatred.
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.
Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.
US science is worth fighting for, but so are the science projects and scientists denied opportunities. Here are 4 paths all worth exploring.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The HuffPost co-founder is now focusing on AI and health — but she’s keeping an eye on agency and human nature.
From Charles Schwab to Jensen Huang, great leaders never attribute their success to flawless planning — they point instead to what went wrong.
These expert-recommended books reveal how big ideas can shape — and sometimes redefine — human progress.
One of the many reasons I love my job is that, on any given week, I get to talk with a dozen or so smart, thoughtful L&D leaders to hear […]
In a world of fast answers, leadership shaped by suffering is radical — and transformative.
In this excerpt from "The First Eight," Congressman Jim Clyburn shares the story of Robert Smalls, the man whose audience with Lincoln may have saved the Union army.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Andrew Markell — philosopher, martial artist, and CEO advisor — argues that true endurance comes from desire, ritual, and learning to evolve through chaos.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
What happens when your boss decides to weaponize positivity in the workplace?
Life's "in-between" stages pack unique cognitive benefits — if you know how to tap into them.