January 9, 2013

The Big Think Booster Pack

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1. Alain de Botton: The Pursuit of Fulfillment

2. Guy Kawasaki on Nepotism

3. Henry Rollins: Libertarianism is Great…if You’re Rich

4. Bill Nye: SETI – Waiting for the Signal

5. Charles Duhigg: What’s Good and What’s Bad about Habits

The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free.

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13.8

“Mystery humbles you”: Scott Derrickson on why skepticism and faith aren’t enemies

The “Doctor Strange” director says mystery shifts your worldview — “not in a metaphorical sense, but in a deeply experiential one.”

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Business

The David Aaker interview: “Trust is vital and fragile”

The marketing guru outlines the current state of brand-building — and highlights four outstanding opportunities for the immediate future.

Two bright, irregularly shaped nebula clouds with blue, purple, and pink gases dominate the dark space background, where dazzling stars twinkle—reminding us that in space, appearances can deceive.

Starts With A Bang

10 space pictures whose appearances will deceive you

There’s an old saying that “what you see is what you get.” When it comes to the Universe, however, there’s often more to the full story.

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Mini Philosophy

Saṃvega: The urgent realization that you need a more meaningful life

If you feel like you’re missing out on something bigger, you might be feeling saṃvega.

Brian Cox: The quantum roots of reality

“We don’t have enough knowledge to precisely calculate what is going to happen, and so we assign probabilities to it, which reflects our ignorance of the situation.”

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