“Big Ideas” are simply the gems I’ve pulled out of my favorite books, seminars and life lessons. We’ve got lots of ‘em in here! You can hit refresh and get a new random 5 or browse by topic or teacher below!

• Dan Millman: Serve Your World
• 60 Seconds
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Envy & Imitation
• Martin Seligman: Optimism vs. Positive Thinking + Explanatory Styles!
• Jack Canfield: Do Your Own Push-Ups

5 Random Big Ideas

Big Ideas by Topic

100 Questions Achievement Act Acting Affluence Albert Szent-gyorgyi Anxiety Appreciation Arena Authentic Beauty Bedroom Beginning Break Breakthroughs Buddhist Burning Caffeine Career Celebrate Celtics Certainty Challenge Change Character Cherish Choices Classroom Coach Consequences Contemporary Contribution Critic Cup Dancing Stars Dare Date With Destiny David Blaine Decisions Desire Despair Destroy Do You! Don Beck Donne Doubt Drama Earth Education Effect Emotion Empathy Empowering Endure Enthusiasm Environmentalism Exercises Expect Experience Explore Extraordinary Faces Fail Failing Faith Fate Flexibility Focus Genius Goal Setting Goals Gratitude Greek Hadith Heat Hindu Identity Ignorance Immerse Impossible Inconsistency Independence Individuality Integrate Integrity Journey Judaism Learning Live Marketing Misfit Mission Modesty Nigeria Nightmare Obstacle Opportunity Optimism Outcome Overachievement Past Personalization Philosopher Physiology Piano Possibility Potential Practice Prayer Pretense Procrastinate Question Results Retirement Ridicule Roman Sat Second Chance Second-hander Secret Security Self Reliance Self-talk Shadow Simple Skin Solution Stress Strong Struggle Suffering Susan Ouellette Talent Teacher Tension Thank You Time Uberman Underestimations Vegetables Victim Victory Virtue Vulnerability Water Weak Weakness Winning Within Work

Big Ideas by Teachers

Abraham Maslow Andrew Cohen Anthony de Mello Aristotle Ayn Rand Buddha Byron Katie Carlos Castaneda Confucius Dalai Lama Dale Carnegie Dan Millman Dan Siegel David Emerald David J. Schwartz David Joseph Schwartz David K. Reynolds Deepak Chopra Don Miguel Ruiz Epictetus Eric Butterworth Esther & Jerry Hicks Friedrich Nietzsche Gay & Katie Hendricks Gay Hendricks Genpo Roshi George Leonard Howard Gardner Jack Canfield James Allen James Arthur Ray Jim Rohn John Eliot John Eliot, Ph.D. John Gottman Joseph Campbell José Silva and Burt Goldman Kahlil Gibran Ken Wilber Krishna Lao-tzu Leo Buscaglia Marci Shimoff Marcus Aurelius Marianne Williamson Martin Seligman Mary-Elaine Jacobsen Mevlana Rumi Michael Bernard Beckwith Michael Gelb Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Morihei Ueshiba Napoleon Hill Paulo Coelho Plato Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Koch Robert Cooper Robert Fritz Robert Kiyosaki Robert Sternberg Robert T. Kiyosaki Robin Sharma Rollo May Rumi Russell Simmons Seneca Shawn Phillips Socrates Stephen Covey Steven Pressfield T. Harv Eker Timothy Ferriss Tony Robbins Vernon Howard Viktor Frankl Wallace D. Wattles Wayne Dyer William Shakespeare Zen Master Bodhidharma Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel