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Metacognition — the ability to think about your thinking — can help you learn faster and make better decisions.
Introverts have social batteries that will drain over time, but they can be recharged with good energy hygiene. Here’s how.
When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.
Inflation's two main criticisms, that it can predict anything and that the "measure problem" remains unsolved, can't erase its successes.
A conversation with investor and author Alex Morris on what Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger can teach us about focus, discipline, and building a life that lasts.
Workplace community is too often dismissed as an HR initiative, when in reality it’s the key to driving business results through frontline employee performance.
Strengthen your focus like a muscle.
When you don't have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.
The host of the Founders podcast joins Big Think for a chat about success, obsession, business genius, human nature, and more.
Are you ready for the “cybernetic corporation”? Amir Husain “profiles” the hottest company of 2035 — and makes a telling comparison with Nvidia.
You might love your leadership role and inspire fierce loyalty — but what if that comes at the expense of a disastrous balance sheet? Here’s a way forward.
Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.
The benefits of compassion in the workplace are manifold — but leaders should retain an intentional focus on mental, emotional, and physical balance.
The measured value of the cosmological constant is 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what's predicted. How can this paradox be resolved?
The CMB has long been considered the Big Bang's "smoking gun" evidence. But after what JWST saw, might it come from early galaxies instead?
Want to study philosophy but skip some of its heavier tomes? These five novels are a great place to start. (Existential despair guaranteed.)
To be culturally intelligent, you must be curious and open-minded — and the benefits can be transformative.
The ANITA experiment found cosmic rays shooting out of Antarctica. One interpretation claims "parallel Universes," but is that right?
"The rise of the internet brought about similar fears, yet it ultimately made learning richer and more accessible."