Adults make eye contact between 30% and 60% of the time in an average conversation, but people should be making eye contact 60% to 70% of the time to create a sense of emotional connection.
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Trying to support as many people as possible made me a much more effective negotiator.
You can learn powerful habits of mind from the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
I had found a new way to express myself, and it was with words.
I really do believe that America has this weight problem, obesity issues and we have all these diseases that we get, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases that are primarily lifestyle diseases.
On October 15, 2013, the City Council of Cupertino, California, debated for 6 hours before finally approvingApple’s plans for a new $5 billion USD office headquarters to be built in […]
Winston Churchill's career reveals that he was pretty consistently wrong on issue after issue, place after place, time after time, and he was wrong for the same reasons he was right in May of 1940.
You have to love the process of starting from scratch.
You need to take the skills you have retired and become extremely good at them.
Move over Willy Loman. Selling today is about servicing latent and hidden problems, an ability that research shows is common among artists.
I think if you’re the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it’s in how you interact with the world.
It is just an extremely satisfying and wondrous moment when you think you’ve unlocked a secret of nature.
College is a risky investment, but you may be able to get a lot more out of living as a college graduate than if you didn’t have a college degree.
The parents have to go well outside of their comfort zone.
Plants are able to perform photosynthesis and therefore, plants are in a position to enjoy cinematography, to enjoy films since the essence of film is light.
Thinking big involves taking risks, and taking risks requires a certain openness to failure. I believe it is an imperative to take such risks today because our personal welfare is […]
I think that the United States is vulnerable for many reasons.
Think of consciousness as essentially the company president that has to arbitrate all the different mechanisms.
It’s the collaboration between the DNA from all your ancestors that keeps you alive.
A group created by the FAA is expected to recommend relaxing the ban on the use of electronic devices during takeoffs and landings.
Teddy Goff will be appearing on Big Think to discuss how the lessons of digital politics can be applied, albeit in smaller scale, to your life or your business.
Software testing can only simulate user behavior and demand in this kind of large-scale technology deployment; it can’t really pattern what will happen.
"Ladies, take special notice. Afghanistan is a heavy duty male chauvinist trip, so try to remember what your dear old Grandmother said about acting like a lady"
We will have abundance in terms of knowledge and equality and we won’t have the bottom billion anymore, but what I call the rising billion.
As Penn Jillettesaid right here on BigThink.com, “Reading the Bible (or the Koran, or the Torah) will make you an atheist.” Of course, just reading the Bible itself—all 66 canonical […]
Time shrinks retrospectively.
Not many art stories make the cover of both TIME and Newsweek in the same week, but the revelation of Andrew Wyeth’s infamous “Helga Paintings” in 1986 caused a news […]
So Hanna Rosin is getting some attention by playing with the big idea that “men are finished.” That doesn’t mean they will literally disappear. It’s just women don’t need them […]
When breast cancer survivor Molly Lindquist decided she wanted to help others beat the same disease she had bested, she started to think big.
Manipulation is a vicious yet not uncommon human trait. Our ability to alter our surroundings in order to take advantage of a situation was recently on display in The Wolf […]