We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world's greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.

Visionaries from Socrates to Steve Jobs have touted curiosity as an essential quality. Here’s how to supercharge your spirit of inquiry.

Really smart people don’t just demand intellectual engagement — they need the opportunity to learn and create something special.

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

Your brain is not an obsolete piece of technology. Once properly trained for learning, it’s your ticket to navigating the AI landscape.

In our competitive world, fortune does not appear to favor the humble — but a strong counter-narrative is emerging.

There are many things in life that cannot be improved with greater effort. Sometimes, life requires that you step back.

The Santa Fe Institute is a cradle of modern research. Our host Kmele meets some of the brilliant minds who work there.

Combining years of neurological research and mindfulness techniques, Dr. Heather Berlin helps us better understand how the body’s most complex organ can easily be misled into negative thinking – and how we can stop that from happening.

He co-created one of TV’s funniest shows. He still felt like a failure in his 30s. This is comedian Neal Brennan’s story about conquering toxic self-talk.

While executive function matures between 18 and 20 years of age, the brain keeps changing long afterward.

Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.

We often assume that movement means progress and that doing something is better than doing nothing. That is often not true.

We are wired to value things more when we work hard at attaining them — even if, objectively, they aren't worth that much.

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

"Precarious manhood" is the belief that manhood must be earned and constantly defended. It has a poor outcome.

We all have a place in our lives where we look the other way and pretend everything is fine. It's a built-in excuse to act selfishly.

In an environment of impressive IQs, emotional intelligence makes all the difference.

Lucid dreamers may have “privileged access to their inner world,” with “heightened awareness… to the outside world.”

Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.