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Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow offers three strategies for relaxing your cognitive filters to give your brilliant ideas time to shine in the spotlight of the conscious mind.

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Master your thinking to excel in business and life.

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What does it mean to "lead without authority"?

Ask very silly questions to spur very serious innovation.

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The most revelatory answers in life come from complex, diverse populations. Technology can open our eyes to what we're missing and destroy our subconscious biases in one fell swoop.

Your mind is built to process contradictory, irrational ideas. Use that to reach new intellectual heights.

Are you the type of person who solves problems piecemeal, or with one great insight? A new study tells us the merits of each method.  

Any story we tell of our species, any science of human nature, that ignores how important stories are in shaping what and how we think and feel is false. We evolved to be ultra-social (and self-deficient), so we care deeply about character and plot.  

Through an incredible anecdote, Earl Lewis demonstrates why STEM can't do it alone. Scientists and humanists needs each other, and institutions have a responsibility to continue to fund and nurture the humanities.