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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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Red, White, and Taboo: America's Sexual History Jan 08, 2025

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American history is kinkier than you think.

📕 Fierce Desires by Rebecca L. Davis

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Custodians of Wonder Jan 07, 2025

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Eliot Stein, journalist and editor at BBC Travel, has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. Today, he shares their stories.

📕 Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

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You Need an Editor Jan 06, 2025

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Want to write emails people will actually read? Author Jenn Bane is here to show you how. Her new book, which she co-wrote with Melissa Harris, is “Everybody Needs an Editor: The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing.”

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What You Learn From Losing Everything Jan 03, 2025

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A storage unit fire destroyed everything Helen Chandler-Wilde owned and forced her to re-evaluate her relationship with material things.

Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman Jan 02, 2025

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Patrick Hutchison quit his office job and moved to a cabin in the woods. Here's what he learned.

Are We Living in an Age of Magical Overthinking? Jan 01, 2025

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Why does living in the so-called Information Age only seem to make life more confusing? Amanda Montell has some surprising answers.

Best Of: No-BS Secrets to Success Dec 31, 2024

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Jim VandeHei co-founded two highly influential news outlets, Politico and Axios. But as he explains in today's episode, his path to success was far from straightforward.

Best Of: How to Get Unstuck Dec 30, 2024

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Adam Alter, author of "Anatomy of a Breakthrough," offers up a groundbreaking guide to breaking free from the thoughts, habits, jobs, relationships, and business models that are preventing you from achieving your full potential.

Best Of: An Ugly Sweater’s Hidden Wisdom Dec 27, 2024

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In the early days of the Covid lockdown, many of us took up new hobbies, like playing guitar or baking bread. But Peggy Orenstein went a little further. A lifelong knitter, Peggy decided to try making a sweater from scratch. She taught herself to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, and other skills. The surprising life lessons she learned are the subject of her new book, "Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater."

Best Of: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens Dec 26, 2024

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Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama’s United States Agency for International Development, shares a dynamic new model for creating large-scale change.

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