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1 week ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat
Join us in spreading ideas that help people live brighter. Subscribe to Book of the Day to support our mission and get daily insights that matter. Upgrade to paid to get exclusive posts, access to author conversations, and more. Psychologist broke free from resentment and rumination, shifting from a victim mindset into what he calls an empowerment mindset. Are you ready to do the same?
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1 week ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat
Think about the best leader you’ve ever known -- it could be a boss, a parent, a mentor. Odds are, it wasn’t someone famous, flashy, or wildly accomplished. More likely, it was someone who made you feel seen—who noticed your effort, believed in your potential, or reminded you that you mattered. That’s what real leadership looks like, according to the new book The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance by researcher Zach Mercurio.
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1 week ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat
Is AI really the world-shaking technology we’re being told we must celebrate or fear? Or is it, at bottom, kind of a con—the latest in a long parade of products designed to separate you from your money and line the pockets of the rich? In the new book The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, linguist Emily M.
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1 week ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat
In any given day, there are countless choices to make. Go for a run or answer a few more emails? Call your parents or scroll through Instagram? Part of the problem is that what you feel like doing doesn’t always align with what you think you should be doing—what syncs up with your deeper goals and values. And relying on willpower alone to make the better choice rarely works. But what if you could train your brain to make those good decisions easier?
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Michael Kovnat
10 hours agoYou’re swallowing fiber capsules, powdered collagen, and mushroom coffee. What if you could improve brain function, support gut health, and promote good skin, hair, and nails with just a handful of nuts every day? These nutritional powerhouses posing as snacks have many health benefits, like …
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1 week ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat |Maggie Smith
You may not paint or play an instrument. You may not write poems or screenplays. But every day, you improvise, solve problems, parent, lead meetings, make dinner plans. That’s creativity, whether you think of it that way or not. believes we’re all artists in the act of making our lives. She’s a bestselling poet and the author of Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life, a guide for anyone trying to stay open, attentive, and hopeful in a world that often pushes us to shut down.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat
Join us in spreading ideas that help people live brighter. Subscribe to Book of the Day to support our mission and get daily insights that matter. Upgrade to paid to get exclusive posts, access to author conversations, and more. What if everything we've been told about having a successful career is wrong?
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2 weeks ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat
A parenting quiz:Should you leave your baby outside in the stroller while you go into a coffee shop? Should you make your C-section a public event? Should you let your friends and neighbors discipline your children? If you’re an American, the answer to all these questions is almost certainly a “no.” But in some parts of the world, it’s not so obvious.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat
Dopamine. Sure, you’ve heard the word, but do you really know what it does? A lot of people think of dopamine as the “pleasure molecule,” but this powerful brain chemical isn’t what makes you feel good—it’s what makes you want to feel good. It’s the neurotransmitter that fuels your drive for more: more success, more stimulation, more snacks, more clicks. It powers your imagination and ambition—but also sets you up for disappointment, restlessness, and burnout.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat
If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at a tech billionaire talking about colonizing Mars or uploading his consciousness to the cloud, you’re not alone. But what if those seemingly outlandish dreams weren’t just harmless sci-fi musings—but a dangerous distraction from the problems we actually need to solve here on Earth?
