THE ESSENTIALS: Our Favorite Moments From Season 4

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

Education, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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We laughed. We cried. We learned. As our fourth season draws to a close, we thought we'd share the moments we're still talking about at Next Big Idea Club HQ. Further Listening: • REGRETS: Daniel Pink Has a Few (And So Should You) • VOICE: You Are What You Speak • EXTENDED MIND: Want to Get Smarter? Try Thinking Outside of Your Brain • FUN: How to Have More of It • FEELING & KNOWING: Unlocking the Secrets of Consciousness • REALITY+: Are We Living in a Simulation? • DRUNK: Can Alcohol Make You More Creative, Sociable, and Attractive? • DAWN OF EVERYTHING: The True History of Humanity • LAZINESS: There's No Such Thing • DOPAMINE NATION: Why the Modern World Puts Us All at Risk for Addiction • BITTERSWEET: Susan Cain on the Beauty of Sorrow and Longing • THE BOMBER MAFIA: Malcolm Gladwell on Warfare, Audiobooks, and the Future of Storytelling

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn. Listen to my new podcast, The Path.
0:05.0	Discover how today's greatest leader shaped their unique career paths, and the lessons they learned along the way.
0:10.0	Tune in to new episodes weekly wherever you enjoy your podcasts.
0:15.0	LinkedIn presents
0:21.0	I'm Rufus Griscoom, and this is the next big idea.
0:26.0	Today, a stroll down memory lane.
0:49.0	In the past 12 months, we've released more than 50 episodes of this show.
0:54.0	50 episodes, could you believe it?
0:56.0	We've covered everything from neuroscience to ancient history.
0:59.0	We've asked bold and impertinent questions. Questions like, does laziness exist?
1:04.0	And are we all living in a simulation?
1:06.0	We've even talked about getting addicted to romance novels.
1:09.0	It's a huge range, I know, but that's kind of the mission of the show and of the next big idea club more broadly.
1:16.0	We're trying to map the world of ideas by bringing you engaging, surprising, and hopefully timely and insightful conversations
1:23.0	with the writers and thinkers whose ideas are most profoundly impacting the way we live and the way we work.
1:30.0	And the ways we understand ourselves and move through the world.
1:34.0	These are extraordinary times. The pace of technology and scientific and political change is disorienting to many of us.
1:41.0	Sometimes exciting, sometimes daunting.
1:44.0	I, for one, at the tender age of 54, I'm still trying to figure out the world.
1:49.0	Our producer Caleb, on the other hand, a precocious polymath who was the wizard behind the curtains over here.
1:55.0	Nearly 30 years old, Caleb has it all figured out. Don't you, Caleb?
1:59.0	That's very nice of you to say.
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