Life Skills/Coaching: Big Think

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Friday, 7 August 2026

The key to better conversations | Charles Duhigg

Wednesday, 5 August 2026

The big mistake we make about strength | Giulia Enders

Monday, 3 August 2026

Why relationships fizzle out | John Gottman

Friday, 31 July 2026

How to be a supercommunicator | Charles Duhigg

Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Working out shouldn't feel like punishment | Giulia Enders

Monday, 27 July 2026

Try eating just 2 meals per day | Tim Spector

Thursday, 23 July 2026

How I evolved out of ‘survival mode’ | Ice-T

We created this video in partnership with Unlikely Collaborators. Ice-T lost everything early in life. Decades later, he says that not knowing what came next became his reason to keep going. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://ift.tt/c2rE7tJ Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 From writing ‘Cop Killer’ to playing a cop on SVU, ICE-T is no stranger to personal evolution. After losing both parents by seventh grade, he was sent to Los Angeles, where he learned to survive without a family. Here, he hustled for money and respect until rap gave him another route. Eventually, acting opened another path, forcing him to step outside the persona he built to protect himself. Now, in his late 60s, he understands that the chaos of his early life existed to propel him forward, and that there is more to life than just survival. Read the video transcript ► https://ift.tt/8gkawJb As humans, we’re shaped by our genetics, as well as our life experiences. They influence how we see the world — and how we engage with the people around us. That unique lens is called a Perception Box™, and each of us lives inside our own. We can’t escape it. But we can expand it by questioning assumptions and challenging our perceptions. At Big Think, we’ve partnered with Unlikely Collaborators to ask better questions. Perception Box™ is a content series grounded in science that explores what becomes possible when we let go of our limiting beliefs and open our minds to a new reality. Explore the Perception Box series hub ► https://ift.tt/mnAd5RK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Youtube Member Get exclusive classes and early, ad-free access to new releases without leaving Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@bigthink/membership/ ►Become a Big Think Web Member Get the entire Big Think Class library, premium print issues, live events, and more. https://ift.tt/qvMeAl8 ►Subscribe to Big Think on Substack Get all of your favorite Big Think content delivered to your inbox. https://ift.tt/MSrLWDm ►Listen to Big Think Interviews on Spotify Insights from the world's biggest thinkers, now as a podcast https://ift.tt/Lrq1y9g

Wednesday, 22 July 2026

The muscle protein that explains success | Giulia Enders

Monday, 20 July 2026

Why you should only buy organic oats | Tim Spector

Friday, 17 July 2026

The psychology of morality, perversion, and revenge, in 67 minutes | Paul Bloom: Full Interview

Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://ift.tt/9cLNXBr Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, The blueprint for becoming an emotionally mature adult, in 68 minutes | Mark Manson: Full Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Swxy4tUE3s&vl=en Psychologist Paul Bloom has spent his career studying the parts of human nature we often feel uncomfortable examining: why loneliness feels like starvation, why people are drawn to behaving poorly, why revenge feels righteous until it destroys everything. Bloom argues that the US doesn't actually have a loneliness epidemic, it has a solitude epidemic, one being accelerated by AI companionship. 0:00 Chapter 1: The promise and peril of AI companions 8:29 Two concerns: addiction & yes-men 16:00 The case for AI companions 23:50 The compulsion to behave badly 48:26 Understanding the morality of revenge Read the video transcript ► [Link to site article]?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube_description © Freethink Media Inc., All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Youtube Member Get exclusive classes and early, ad-free access to new releases without leaving Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@bigthink/membership/ ►Become a Big Think Web Member Get the entire Big Think Class library, premium print issues, live events, and more. https://ift.tt/VQIs0eg ►Subscribe to Big Think on Substack Get all of your favorite Big Think content delivered to your inbox. https://ift.tt/vECdx5w ►Listen to Big Think Interviews on Spotify Insights from the world's biggest thinkers, now as a podcast https://ift.tt/p0yWtjV ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Paul Bloom: Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology at Yale University. An internationally recognized expert on the psychology of child development, social reasoning, and morality, he has won numerous awards for his research, writing, and teaching. Bloom’s previous books include Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil and How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like, and he has written for Science, Nature, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.

Thursday, 16 July 2026

The harmony Carnie Wilson spent her whole life trying to find

We created this video in partnership with Unlikely Collaborators. Growing up as Brian Wilson's daughter meant music everywhere, and very little peace. In the first episode of The Me I Used to Be, Carnie Wilson opens up about what she was really looking for all those years, and how she finally found it. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://ift.tt/CxNoged Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Carnie Wilson — best known as one-third of Wilson Phillips and daughter of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson — revisits some of the most defining moments of her public and private life. From a childhood spent in the chaos of rock-and-roll royalty, to her rise as one of the best-selling artists of the early 90s, to her very public weight-loss journey and the road to sobriety and motherhood that followed, Carnie shares what she sees when she looks back, and what it's taken to finally feel like she belongs. Read the video transcript ► https://ift.tt/vIDxMJf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Youtube Member Get exclusive classes and early, ad-free access to new releases without leaving Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@bigthink/membership/ ►Become a Big Think Web Member Get the entire Big Think Class library, premium print issues, live events, and more. https://ift.tt/tqYSc6N ►Subscribe to Big Think on Substack Get all of your favorite Big Think content delivered to your inbox. https://ift.tt/QW4Hjxl ►Listen to Big Think Interviews on Spotify Insights from the world's biggest thinkers, now as a podcast https://ift.tt/rHkK53t ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------