3 ways smart people stay stuck in failing patterns | Anne-Laure Le Cunff

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Anne-Laure Le Cunff: The 3 cognitive scripts that rule over your life | Full Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubMghRYqk8o Most of the decisions that shape a life…

The evolutionary logic of survival and death, in 54 minutes | Sean B. Carroll: Full Interview

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, The evolution of laziness: Why humans resist the gym ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLY0TNm67hY How does life build complexity from pure chance? Sean B. Carroll takes up the…

Smartphones: The biggest threat to a healthy childhood | Clare Morell: Full Interview

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Yuval Noah Harari: Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4l1fr-t3ZE Smartphones and social media are hijacking our younger generation’s childhood and development in…

Michio Kaku: How quantum computers compute in multiple universes at once

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell (Full Presentation) ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk “The next revolution will be quantum computers that will make the digital computer look…

Yuval Noah Harari: The apocalypse begins with toxic information

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1OvbwY6GPM “The problem is in our information. Humans, yes, we…

The art and science of failing well

From Big Think. We created this video in partnership with Unlikely Collaborators. Failure is inevitable, but your response to it is a choice – and it makes all the difference. 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 Journalist Tim Harford, PhD, psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, and…

How the world will change over the next 25 years, in 55 minutes | Peter Leyden: Full Interview

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “Old systems of the past are collapsing, and new systems of the future are still to be born. I call this moment the great progression.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next,…

How childhood wiring impacts adult life, in 90 minutes | Becky Kennedy: Full Interview

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “Why would adding shame and blame help me improve my behavior?” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, How the body keeps the score on trauma ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTefkqYQz8g Parenting is often framed…

3 reasons AI isn’t delivering the productivity revolution it promised | Martin Gonzalez

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “I’ve started to think about three puzzles we need to solve for as we bring these technologies into our organizations.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, The smartest people have mastered…

The science of delivering cures straight to your cells | Eric Kelsic

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “Until very recently, I thought I would die with the same genome that I was born with.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year…

24 of the most important questions about psychedelics, answered | Matthew Johnson: Full Interview

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “Psychedelics crosscut so many interesting domains. They’ve been used for time immemorial by indigenous cultures. In our own Western cultural history, they really exploded on the scene in the 1960s, and were associated with radical…

90 mins of philosophy with Alex O’Connor: God, nihilism, and ethical emotivism | Full Interview

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “I think that there are very good arguments to believe that there are some kind of foundational principle of the universe, some necessarily existing being, some first cause.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►…

The limits of rationalism: From Socrates to neural networks | Dan Shipper: Full Interview

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “What’s really interesting about neural networks is the way that they think or the way that they operate is a lot like human intuition” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Yuval…

The techno-rivalry that will decide the next century | Dan Wang and Kmele Foster

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “China has built essentially one New York City plus a Boston’s worth of housing every single year for roughly the last 30 years.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Why 2025…

Every major leap in human progress has this in common | Jason Crawford: Full Interview

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “Progress happens when we choose to make it happen. It happens through choice and effort. And ultimately, to make progress happen, we have to believe in it.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1…

Do LLMs follow the First Amendment?

From Big Think. This interview is an episode from ‪@The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the ‪@JohnTempletonFoundation. Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube Watch all of Mchangama’s interviews ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_B7bI1QVmJBpGqPZQP1mSFrN1Rfy0CR5 What happens when the technology mediating nearly all our information begins to decide what speech is acceptable?…

The moment every civilization fears: the growth plateau | Jason Crawford

From Big Think. “People got skeptical, fearful, doubtful of the very idea of progress in the 20th century and we allowed that to slow down progress itself.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year in our lifetime | Peter Leyden ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5k72A30kUc Have we…

The dangerous myth of permanent trauma | George Bonanno: Full Interview

From Big Think. “There are at least three very much interrelated misconceptions about trauma right now.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, [Sentence case video title] ► [YouTube’s share link of video] We may think that trauma leaves irreversible scars, reshaping our brain and emotional regulation permanently. The science, however, shows…

Evolution begins with error, not design | Sean B. Carroll

From Big Think. “Chance invents and natural selection propagates that chance invention.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, The mind-bending probability of our existence | Sean B. Carroll: Full Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hOjpxNHgQc Evolution doesn’t create with intent: it begins with error. Random mutations, filtered through time and circumstance, give rise to…

Why skill plateaus are inevitable – and how to push past them | Atul Gawande for Big Think+

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member and watch Atul Gawande’s full class: https://bigthink.com/my-classes/true-ingredients-of-successful-leadership/set-clear-goals-with-okrs/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc “The purpose of a coach is to not be the one to set the goals, but instead to say, "Here are the kinds of goals we can work our way through.”” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up…

The illusion of shared reality: Why no two minds see the same world | Anil Seth & Jonny Thomson

From Big Think. “Consciousness is fundamental. It’s a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, How to grow deeply happy | Jonny Thomson ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WShJeNX7W8 What does it mean to be conscious, and why does it feel like…

Why general relativity would’ve been discovered without Einstein | Sean Carroll

From Big Think. “Consciousness is fundamental. It’s a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Sean Carroll explains why physics is both simple and impossible | Full Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBNJyztai0 What does it mean to be conscious, and…

The science of randomness, flukes, and fate | Brian Klaas

From Big Think. “When you start to accept that you have profound influence on the world, but very limited control, you start to see the world differently.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, We control nothing, but we influence everything | Brian Klaas: Full Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtn2Wxai-ug We like to believe…