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From flow to emotional intelligence, these insightful books feature actionable advice you can try out today.

Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.

Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.

The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.

Spotify’s Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

Cognitive systems famously posited by psychologist Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) may hold the key to a more productive and focused work environment.

Big Think recently spoke with behavioral scientist and author Katy Milkman about what really motivates us and steers our behavior.

Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.

Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.

Misinterpreted data may be distorting Western predictions about the future of China’s economy.

Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.

Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.

More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.

Plato’s cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.

Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.

Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?

A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?

Three reasons why a radically better future is more likely than we think.

A small study suggests that IMST is as effective as medications or 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.

How much can something change and still be the same thing?

Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.

This is a perversion of justice.

When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as “analysis paralysis.” Why? Isn’t choice a good thing?