Legends

9 episodes

Purposeful, passionate, and bold, these Big Think+ experts have made important contributions to human thought and to the history of ideas.

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The genius behind “BBL Drizzy” on maximizing creativity with AI

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6 min

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Willonius Hatcher

Ben Horowitz: Quit being a coward and do the hard thing

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7 min

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Ben Horowitz

12 traits emotionally intelligent people share (And why you can learn them)

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12 min

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Daniel Goleman

The 4 biggest ideas in philosophy, with legend Daniel Dennett

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12 min

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Daniel Dennett

From bullied to brilliant: How Temple Grandin embraces autism

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8 min

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Temple Grandin

How to future-proof your career

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9 min

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Chip Conley

How the body keeps the score of trauma

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Bessel van der Kolk

The “alpha male” myth, debunked

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7 min

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Frans de Waal

Berkeley professor explains gender theory

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13 min

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Judith Butler

Depression and anxiety triggers are ‘best practices’ in bad journalism

“These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that’s a problem.”

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11 min

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Amanda Ripley

Love, sex, and happiness, explained by philosophy | Jonny Thomson: Full Interview

“Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is. Sex can reach a point where you are in union with that person, where you see behind their appearances and you see behind the flesh and you experience something which is more transcendental.”

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32 min

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Jonny Thomson

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Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes

“Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement are becoming very real. We’re beginning to be able to access this tremendously complicated configuration space to do useful things.”

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22 min

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Brian Cox

The genius behind “BBL Drizzy” on maximizing creativity with AI

“We’re at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being.”

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6 min

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Willonius Hatcher

Perception Box

Dhar Mann on failure, fatherhood, and the spreadsheet that changed his life

How the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media mogul learned from his struggles, and why he believes accountability is the real secret to happiness.

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8 min

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Dhar Mann