Overtime: A “fee” you’ll actually want
Former NBA player (turned psychologist) has a new model for success.
This is Big Think Business Overtime – our top three releases worth your time. Get advice directly from the people who have been through it.
Worth watching
The voice in your head is lying to you. Here’s how to shut it down.
with John Amaechi
John Amaechi knows what it takes to go from overlooked to unstoppable. The NBA veteran and psychologist reveals the mindset behind his success—how mastering the mundane, handling setbacks, and focusing on small, deliberate actions led him to achieve the extraordinary.
Success isn’t about talent—it’s about paying the FEE: Focus, Effort, Execution.
Worth reading
What Leonardo’s obsession with water teaches us about longevity
In a forgotten notebook from the late 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci sketched a series of looping eddies — swirls of water curling back on themselves. He was studying how fluids moved in nature. Rivers, blood, air. He even observed that water, when hitting an obstacle, would form vortices resembling the coils of a woman’s hair. For Leonardo, this wasn’t idle doodling. This was pattern recognition. This was the signature of life itself.
Centuries before turbulence could be modeled by a computer or a physicist could explain fluid dynamics in differential equations, Leonardo saw it. Not just the movement, but the metaphor: that longevity is not about stillness. It is about motion within motion. Systems inside systems. Constant change, elegantly contained. If you want to learn how to endure in a period of rapid change, listen to a man who never stopped moving.
Ok. Let’s back up a minute. Studying Leonardo da Vinci can be… exhausting. The man painted the most famous portrait in history. He dissected human cadavers to study muscle tissue. He designed helicopters 400 years before flight. He wrote in mirror script. He had ADHD before we had acronyms. And yet, despite his restlessness — or perhaps because of it — his ideas have lasted. Not just lasted, but echoed, reverberated, compounded. Across centuries. Across disciplines. Across lives.
Worth listening
The reason your best employees are struggling (and the neuroscience-backed solutions)
Dr Ethan Kross and Jennifer Moss dive into the burnout epidemic.
Nearly 8 out of 10 workers feel stressed at work, and most say it’s leaving them completely drained. If you’re seeing warning signs on your team or feeling the impact yourself, this deep dive into the burnout epidemic will give you the science-backed strategies you need.
Dr. Ethan Kross, neuroscientist at the University of Michigan and author of Chatter and Shift, breaks down what’s actually happening in your brain when stress feels debilitating. Jennifer Moss, workplace wellness expert and author of Why Are We Here? and The Burnout Epidemic, shares the organizational strategies that companies like Google and TD Bank use to transform their workplace cultures.
Together, they deliver both the “why” behind burnout and the “how” to fix it, giving you actionable frameworks to implement immediately.
Mike Hodgkinson is the commissioning editor at Big Think. He has worked as a writer and editor across a range of publications for more than three decades.
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