BIG ideas.

“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!

5 Random Big Ideas

Big Ideas by Topic

100 Questions Affluence Amini Andrew Cohen Anger Applied Kinesiology Appreciation Aptitude Arete Authentic Happiness Basketball Beginning Big Mind Brain Brilliant Candy Capability Challenge Challenges Chess Children Chit Circulate Classic Commit Compensation Confident Conflict Consciousness Control Conversations Crazy Date With Destiny Death Defect Destroy Determination Differences Doing Don Beck Doubt Drama Education Emotion Enjoy Entropy Everyday Enlightenment Excellence Exceptional Expand Failing Flexibility Flow Forthright Future Generous Gift Godlike Gradualness Great Greatness Greed Guarantee Guru Happy Hendricks Hindu History Humor Idea Impeccable Intellect Jihad Journey Joy Judaism Jump Labor Mantra Master Meditations Mental Movie Motivational Nigeria Now Obstacle Optimism Overcompensation Overman Pain Paranoia Passion Peers Perfect Personally Piano Pilgrim Progress Positive Thinking Possibilities Potential Power Preparation Pressure Pretense Projections Purpose Ready Rearview Mirrors Ridicule Rust Sat Second Chance Self Reliance Self-actualization Self-reliance Serotonin Sex Shame Shine Simple Smart Society Spiritual Star Wars Steve Jobs Stress Student Stupid Success Summit Support Sustainable Symphony Talent The Work Thinking Torch Trail Transcending Uberman Uncertainty Underestimations Vegetables Victory Warrior Waste Will Wisdom Yang Yes

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

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