“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!

• Ken Wilber: Lines of Development
• Smile
• Marci Shimoff: Response-Ability: The Ability to Respond
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Rechristening Evil
• Tony Robbins: Shoulding on Yourself

5 Random Big Ideas

Big Ideas by Topic

30 Days Acting Amini Anger Appreciation Attachment Awareness Becoming Beginning Belief Bill Russel Bliss Brilliant Buddhism Burning Camus Career Cause Celebrate Chicken The Soup For The Soul Circulate Circumstance Cling Coach Command Commit Compulsion Consequence Consequences Crazy Creative Genius Dare Darkness Darwin Decision Decisions Defeat Differences Diligence Diminishing Returns Discipline Distraction Don Beck Dying Emotional Intelligence Emphasize Enkrateia Enlightenment Enthusiasm Exciting Expand Experience Faith Fate Faulkner Fear Fearlessnes Financial First Things First Five Secrets Float Fly Fruit Giving Goal Setting Guru Heart Honesty Ideal Individuality Insanity Integral Jihad Judaism Latin Law of Attraction Learned Meditations Motivational Muscles Native American Nervousness Nigeria Now Nutrition Obey Opinion Oprah Past Patience Peers Perception Perfection Persistence Persona Persuasiveness Physiology Plunge Poetry Positive Thinking Possibility Pressure Proactive Progress Question Reaction Real Magic Rearview Mirrors Rebel Religious Retirement Revel Rolfing Sanskrit Schedule Scream Self-reliance Self-talk Shower Significance Smile Solution Stall Stress Strong Subculture Sugar Summit Support Susan Ouellette Teach Ted Temperance Theatre Thoughts Time Management Timothy Ferriss Torch Training Trust Try Uberman Uncertainty Unreasonable Vacation Vegetables Vice Virtue Within Yang

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