“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!

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lead & Leave a Trail
• Ayn Rand: Not a Second-Hander
• Krishna: The Power of Our Will
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Good Luck
• Russell Simmons: Tapas

5 Random Big Ideas

Big Ideas by Topic

30 Days Actualization Adrenaline Albert Szent-gyorgyi Art Tatum Attitude Authentic Happiness Authenticity Aware Awareness Bliss Bold Business Candy Challenges Character Cling Coach Combat Common Sense Confidence Confucianism Consciousness Consideration Contentment Control Conversations Crazy Creativity Creator Criticize Darkness Death Decision Deeds Demand Desire Development Differences Diminishing Returns Don Beck Doubt Dream Drifting Dying Ecology Edge Emotional Intelligence Endure Enkrateia Enlightenment Ethics Examine Express Fail Faith Fall Fear Fearlessnes First Things First Five Secrets Five Things Freedom Friendship Frog Fulfillment Gift Gold Growth Guru Habits Handshake Hardy History Horizon Ideals Ignorance Individuality Indulgence Integrate Integrity Intelligence Invincible Jihad Journey Joy Kindness Latin Learn Management Master Mature Movies Mystic Nature Nervousness Nigeria Nightmare Opinion Optimist Parents Past Peers People Personalization Possibilities Pretense Procrastinate Progress Pronoia Real Magic Receive Relationships Religion Renewal Resistance Rest Revel Risk Sat Schedule Secret Shower Sin Solution Spend Star Wars States Strength Stupidity Suffer Sugar Summit Superior Talent Taoism Taskmaster Ted Thinkarete Train Transcending Try Uncertainty Universe Values War Water Wealth Willpower 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