The Next Big Idea

By: Next Big Idea Club
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  • The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join our host, Rufus Griscom — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.
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  • Want a More Meaningful Life? Embrace Your Limitations.

    Want a More Meaningful Life? Embrace Your Limitations.
    Oct 31 2024
    In his mega-bestseller “Four Thousand Weeks,” Oliver Burkeman showed that the shortness of life “isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fueled panic about making the most of your limited time. It’s a cause for relief.” Now, in “Meditations for Mortals,” he invites us to embrace what he calls “imperfectionism.” Accept your limitations, your finitude, your lack of control — because “the more we try to render the world controllable,” he warns, “the more it eludes us; and the more daily life loses … its resonance, its capacity to touch, move and absorb us.” ✨ Want to hear Oliver’s advice on how to keep your feet on the ground this election season? Head over to bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • THE WORK OF ART: How Something Comes From Nothing

    THE WORK OF ART: How Something Comes From Nothing
    Oct 24 2024
    Making art is hard work, as Adam Moss, the revered former editor of New York magazine, reveals in his illuminating new book, "The Work of Art." The book is a collection of interviews with painters, poets, filmmakers, and even sandcastle builders about the demanding, mystical, peculiar process of creating something out of nothing. Adam spoke with our curator Daniel Pink in front of a live audience in New York City earlier this month. 📕 The Work of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing 🗞️ Check out Dan's Washington Post column, "Why Not?"
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    57 mins
  • ANXIOUS GENERATION (Part 2): How to Raise Resilient Kids in the Digital Age

    ANXIOUS GENERATION (Part 2): How to Raise Resilient Kids in the Digital Age
    Oct 17 2024
    Earlier this week, Jonathan Haidt joined us to discuss the crisis in youth mental health caused by smartphones and social media. Now he’s back to talk solutions. ✉️ We launched a Substack! Check it out now at bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com 🎙️ Enjoy this episode? Check out Rufus's related conversations with Will Storr and Anna Lembke
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    37 mins

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Makes you think

The episodes are generally very relevant to current events and can make you step back and see the bigger picture or reevaluate your views. I love this podcast. I don't find every episode interesting but there is quite the catalog and sometimes go back and find episodes relevant to what's been on my mind.

Simply a well executed show.

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DRUGS episode: Bashing the Mentally ill

I really tried to keep a open mind for the "Drugs" episode that I listened to on another platform first. People with mental illnesses are "Non adults"? Are you kidding me? How in this age, can both the host and the interviewee be so ridiculously tone deaf and repeatedly refer to those who might suffer from genetically inherited mental illness issues "non adults" who chose not to "grow up". What great "science" they chose to spew on their platform. I'll never listen to another one of these again and hope that they choose to do better journalism in the future that more responsibly talks about a significant portion of the population that has already suffered enough bias.

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