This Week: Are You a Bad Friend?
How to win at friendship, how to stop being a victim, and other big ideas we came across this week.
This Week on the Next Big Idea Podcast
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Book Bite of the Week
Are you a bad friend?
This week in the Next Big Idea app, historian
joins us to talk about why it can be so hard to be a good friend. As the definition of friendship has evolved, what can we be doing today to forge meaningful connections? Tiffany answers this in her new book, Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship. Download the app or hear Tiffany share her key insights here.
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This Week on the Next Big Idea Daily Podcast
Train your brain to accomplish what matters most.
What if you could condition your brain to make it easier to make good decisions—choices that line up with your deeper values and goals? That’s the promise offered in the new book What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change, by neuroscientist Emily Falk. Hear Emily’s big ideas on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Happy Pub Week!
Two new books out this week have caught our attention. The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction--and How to Overcome It by James Kimmel, Jr. and Hello, Cruel World!: Science-Based Strategies for Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times by
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