As the months fly by and the same routines cycle over and over again, it can be hard to stay motivated about your job and keep putting your best foot forward. Fortunately, every day presents a new opportunity to reconnect with your driving purpose, strengthen skills, and practice new and improved habits. If summer didn’t recharge you for a new season of work, then these eight books will.
Dynamic Drive: The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success
By Molly Fletcher
In a world fixated on fleeting success, Molly Fletcher, renowned keynote speaker, podcast host, and entrepreneur, invites you to challenge the status quo and redefine your understanding of drive. Dynamic Drive offers her proven formula for engaging, sustaining, and maximizing high performance in all areas of your life. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Molly Fletcher, in the Next Big Idea App
Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You
By Tessa West
A psychologist’s guide to finding your most fulfilling job yet. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Tessa West, in the Next Big Idea App
What’s Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready
By Frederik Pferdt
The renowned global thought leader and Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist introduces a forward-thinking mindstate that will help you navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities, and create exactly the future you want to see. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Frederik Pferdt, in the Next Big Idea App
Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change (Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday Life)
By Nicole Vignola
Change your mind to change your life—discover the neuroscience of a better you in this revolutionary book from neuroscientist and online sensation Nicole Vignola that teaches you how to rewire your brain to achieve peak mental wellbeing. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Nicole Vignola, in the Next Big Idea App
Is Your Work Worth It?: How to Think About Meaningful Work
By Christopher Wong Michaelson & Jennifer Tosti-Kharas
What is work that’s worth doing in a life worth living? A revealing exploration of the questions we ask and the stories we tell about our work. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-authors Jennifer and Christopher, in the Next Big Idea App
Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work
By Kandi Wiens
An essential guide everyone needs to protect themselves from burnout by learning to develop and master key emotional intelligence skills. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Kandi Wiens, in the Next Big Idea App
MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact
By Adaira Landry & Resa Lewiss
Every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. We call these: MicroSkills. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by co-authors Adaira and Resa, in the Next Big Idea App
The Stoic Mindset: Living the Ten Principles of Stoicism
By Mark Tuitert
A ten-step guide to reaching your peak potential through the wisdom of Stoic philosophy by entrepreneur and Olympic champion speed skater Mark Tuitert. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Mark Tuitert, in the Next Big Idea App
The Key Ideas in 15 Minutes
“If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books,” Roald Dahl once famously said. The only trouble is, reading even one book from cover to cover takes hours—and you may not have many hours to spare.
But imagine for a moment: What if you could read a groundbreaking new book every day? Or even better, what if you could invite a world-renowned thinker into your earbuds, where they personally describe the 5 key takeaways from their work in just 15 minutes?
With the Next Big Idea App, we’ve turned this fantasy into a reality. We partnered with hundreds of acclaimed authors to create “Book Bites,” short audio summaries of the latest nonfiction that are prepared and read aloud by the authors themselves. Discover cutting-edge leadership skills, productivity hacks, the science of happiness and well-being, and much more—all in the time it takes to drive to work or walk the dog.
Go Deeper with a Next Big Idea Club Membership
The Next Big Idea App is free for anyone to try—and if you love it, we invite you to become an official member of the Next Big Idea Club. Membership grants you unlimited access to Book Bites and unlocks early-release, ad-free episodes of our LinkedIn-partnered podcast. You also gain entry to our private online discussion group, where you can talk big ideas with fellow club members and join exclusive live Q&A sessions with featured authors.
For a more focused learning experience, we recommend a Hardcover or eBook Membership. Every few months, legendary authors and club curators Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink select two new nonfiction books as the must-reads of the season. We then send hardcover copies straight to your doorstep, or eBook versions to your favorite digital device. We also collaborate with the authors of selected books to produce original reading guides and premium video e-courses, 50-minute master classes that take you step by step through their most life-changing ideas. And yes, it’s all available through the Next Big Idea App.
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Whether you prefer to read, listen, or watch, the Next Big Idea is here to help you work smarter and live better. Wake up with an always-fresh Idea of the Day, the perfect shot of inspiration to go with your morning coffee. Then dive into one of our Challenges, hand-picked collections of Book Bites that form crash courses in subjects like communication, motivation, and career acceleration. Later, watch the playback of an interview with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Stanford psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt, or philosopher John Kaag. And be sure to check the “Events” tab in the app, so that you can join an upcoming live Q&A and personally chat with the next featured thought leader.
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