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**The Next Big Idea Daily**

What if engaging with great ideas could become one of your daily habits? What if some of the best tips for living better and working smarter were served up with your morning coffee, a hit of motivation guaranteed to start your day right? That’s the idea behind The Next Big Idea Daily. We work with hundreds of non-fiction authors — experts in productivity, creativity, leadership, communication, and other fields. They distill their big ideas into bite-sized chunks, and we offer you one each morning.

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Latest Episodes:

When You Were Born Matters More Than You Think Feb 19, 2026

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Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans by Robert Sampson
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen

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Your Relationship Isn't a Product. It's a Project. Feb 18, 2026

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Bonded By Evolution by Paul Eastwick
Between Us by Batja Mesquita

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Agile Is the New Smart Feb 17, 2026

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As AI transforms the economy, adaptability will be more predictive of success than raw brainpower.

AQ: A New Kind of Intelligence for a World That’s Always Changing by Liz Tran
Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity, and Connection―Now and in an Uncertain Future by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin Seligman

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Your Meetings Suck. Here's How to Fix Them. Feb 16, 2026

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Rebecca Hinds is an organizational behavior expert who studies how collaboration breaks down in modern workplaces — and how to fix it. Her new book is Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done. And in the second half of the show, we’ll focus in on a particular meeting format that deserves its own attention. We’ll get big ideas from the 2024 book Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings.

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Finding Love (and Losing It) Feb 13, 2026

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Today, we’re going to hear some big ideas from the 2022 book Speaking in Thumbs: A Psychiatrist Decodes Your Relationship Texts So You Don't Have To by Mimi Winsberg. And if you're nursing a broken heart this Valentine's Day, stay tuned. In the second half of the show, we’re bringing you ideas from Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams.

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The Neuroscience of Romantic Obsession Feb 12, 2026

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Tom Bellamy's new book, Smitten: Romantic Obsession, the Neuroscience of Limerence, and How to Make Love Last, is out now.

You Could Be Having Better Sex. Here’s How. Feb 11, 2026

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Nicole McNichols is a psychology professor at the University of Washington, where her course on human sexuality attracts more than 4,000 students each year. Her new book is called You Could Be Having Better Sex, and it offers a roadmap for building a more fulfilling intimate life. And later in the show, we’ll hear from activist Chanel Contos, whose book Consent Laid Bare examines the cultural forces that enable sexual harm, and how we can create positive change.

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Your Guilt Isn’t a Personal Failure. It’s a System Problem. Feb 10, 2026

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Today, big ideas come from the books Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations by Jennifer Reid and Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab.

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The Case Against Personal Responsibility Feb 09, 2026

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Nick Chater and George Loewenstein are behavioral scientists who've spent decades studying decision-making, and their new book is called It's on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We’re to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems. Nick joins us to explain why blaming individuals for society's problems is not just wrong — it's exactly what powerful interests want us to believe.

And stick around, because later in the show we'll hear from Stanford professor Brian Lowery, whose book Selfless makes a fascinating companion argument: that the whole idea of the independent, self-contained individual might be a myth in the first place.

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Two Takes on Entrepreneurship Feb 06, 2026

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Business historian John Landry and entrepreneur Howard Wolk argue that America really is different when it comes to fostering new ventures. Then we'll hear from journalist David Sax about what it actually means to build a business and a life.

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