“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!

• Rollo May: Choose Wisely
• Stephen Covey: Funerals
• Buddha: Noble Truths
• Morihei Ueshiba: Thoughts on Progress
• Marcus Aurelius: The Equanimity Game

5 Random Big Ideas

Big Ideas by Topic

30 Days Accept Achievement Adrenaline Aim Albert Szent-gyorgyi Apple Arete Assumptions Attention Aware Awareness Becoming Big Mind Bold Burning Business Candy Career Cause Challenges Choice Choices Chun Yu Circumstance Command Compulsion Consequences Contemporary Contentment Control Coward Critics Cup Dancing Stars Dare David Blaine Demand Determination Diminishing Returns Distraction Doing Doubts Empathy Energy Enjoy Enkrateia Evolve Examine Excitement Exciting Expand Explanatory Style Fall Fame Family First Things First Flexibility Forest Frog Fruit Fulfillment Future God Good Greatness Happiness Honor Humble Humility Identity Imitation Inspiration Instrument Integrity Intention Invincible Jainism Jobs Journey Joy Knowledge Labor Lasting Love and Conscious Living Leadership Learn Love Manifesto Moderation Music Mystic Mysticism Nets Obstacle Opinion Opportunity Oprah Optimism Overcompensation Overload Overman Path Patience Perception Perfection Personally Pilgrim Progress Plunge Poor Practice Pronoia Reason Rebel Receive Religion Resistance Rest Revel Right Risk Rules Sat Scream Second-hander Self Reliance Shine Soft Solitude Stages of Development Stop Stress Stretch Suffer Superior Supple Support Sweat Talent Taoism Teacher Tension The Work Time Transparency Try Uberman Victory Waste Weakness Winning

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