“We’ve engineered a volatile world where Starbucks is completely unchanging from year to year, but democracies are collapsing and rivers are drying up.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Everything does NOT happen for a reason ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm62KTbZE4Q As modern humans we experience a different world […]
“While society’s been humming along and enjoying all these advances in agriculture and medicine, in the last 50 or 60 years, ecologists have learned a lot about how nature works. I’ve codified these into a set of rules called the ‘Serengeti Rules.’” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 […]
“In our current social and physical climate, there’s a sense of fatalism, a fear that bringing someone new into the world might be a bad thing.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Dating apps encourage our worst instincts. Here’s how to be more ethical ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXL2kjDoc04 […]
“If you’re a manager or a leader and all you do is dream big dreams and talk about the future in lofty visionary terms and you don’t actually get anything done, everyone is going to hate you.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Want to be […]
“I saw that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, and when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the full Perception Box series ► https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5uULy4b0kV4iomWS7CzqCdOCwj0lFnLr&si=yCY6Ee7m6bpj7E-y Author and public speaker Byron Katie shares how she transformed her life after discovering ‘The […]
“There is so much more uncertainty and volatility in a world that is moving fast with big countries that are more at odds with each other and with fewer rules of the road that leaders, companies, and societies are adhering to.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up […]
The one phrase that changed Diana Nyad’s life, and set her on course to become the first person ever to conquer the 110 mile, 53 hour swim from Florida to Cuba. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the full Perception Box series ► https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5uULy4b0kV4iomWS7CzqCdOCwj0lFnLr&si=yCY6Ee7m6bpj7E-y At 64, Diana […]
“The truth is there are very few supplements that have good evidence-based medicine to support them.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, The science of menopause in 13 minutes ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ8p_BViUKc Supplements and vitamins constantly go viral with claims that they can transform your health just […]
How to know what you really want, with Luke Burgis Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up next ►► The ugly psychology behind scapegoating | Luke Burgis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLa0zqShCcw There are two kinds of desire, thin and thick. Thick desires are like layers of rock that have been built […]
Social media addiction – how it changes your brain, with Luke Burgis Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►►https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up next ►► How social media changes identity, personality, memory | Parker Posey | Big Think https://youtu.be/VHEfCSHZfs8 By definition, mimetic desire means that we’re adopting another person’s desire as our own, […]
