“Just tell me what you want me to do, and I’ll do it.” In her Big Think Edge video, “Empower Your People — Conversational Moves for Engaging Your Team in Creative Collaboration,” Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus describes such a
Should you find yourself speaking to a group of people and not connecting, you’re stuck in a situation that seemingly benefits no one. For some people it seems to come so easily: gifted orators who electrify crowds, or performers who
“Doing any sort of creative work takes so much intellectual tussle that if there’s any way you can escape from it, you will.” So says Tina Brown, founder of the Women in the World Summit and former editor of Vanity
After his breakout performance as Breaking Bad’s Walter White — and after playing dad Hal in Malcolm in the Middle — it might seem that Bryan Cranston’s always been as successful as he is today. Of course, his fame follows
The way in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes solves even the most challenging of mysteries is more than just dazzling fun. In fact, says Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, Holmes’ method
“There is a kind of whispering campaign — more than a whispering campaign, sometimes a yelling campaign — against the value of objective truth.” So says biologist and author Richard Dawkins. His latest book, Science in the Soul, seeks to
Peer pressure is a powerful thing, even for adults. In his Big Think Edge video, “Generate Better Conversations,” economist Tim Harford tells the story of an instructive study done in the 1950s by psychologist Solomon Asch. It demonstrated why speaking
Physicist and author of Einstein’s Dreams Alan Lightman once did a study of 30 of science’s great discoveries. He wanted to learn what he could about the creative process from which they sprang. In most cases, he found that the
“Everything in society today that can be solved by straightforward analysis gets solved immediately,” says Leonard Mlodinow, theoretical physicist and author of Elastic. Unfortunately, many problems aren’t that simple. To work one’s way through them, he says, requires a different way
