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Today, retired Navy captain Brett Crozier ("Surf When You Can") explains why in order to achieve big success, you've first got to nail the little things.• Sign up for our newsletter to get a behind-the-scenes look at how we make this show• Download the Next Big Idea app to hear hundreds of authors summarize their books• Use code DAILY to get 10% off a Next Big Idea Club subscription at nextbigideaclub.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether you're flying, captaining, or working, always focus on the alligator closest to the canoe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are stronger when we work together. Literally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Talk to me, Goose." Actually, this week we're saying, "Talk to me, Chopper." That was Brett Crozier's call sign when he served as a fighter pilot (and it's what his wife still calls him when she's irritated). Brett has a new book out called "Surf When You Can: Lessons in Life, Loyalty, and Leadership from a Maverick Navy Captain," which charts his journey from "Top Gun" wannabe to commanding officer of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. He joins Michael this week to share five lessons from his career that can help you improve your life-work balance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're wrapping up our collection of summery Book Bites with a few lessons from Smiley Poswolsky's "Friendship in the Age of Loneliness: An Optimist's Guide to Connection."• Subscribe to our newsletter• Download our app• Join our club (code DAILY gets you 10% off)• Send us an email Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley who helped Pixar make “Inside Out,” explores the history and science of awe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When David Pogue (CBS Sunday Morning) realized that we are already living through the beginnings of climate chaos, he decided to write a book full of action plans for riding out every climate catastrophe that Mother Nature might throw at us.• Download the Next Big Idea app: nextbigideaclub.com/app/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ice ice baby! Today, journalist and historian Amy Brady shares the astonishing 200-year history of ice in America, from ice rinks to ice cream to modern-day miracles like cryotherapy breast-cancer treatments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're trying something different this week. Instead of hearing from one author, you'll hear from five. Together, they'll help you figure out how to have the perfect summer. Up first: comedian and podcaster Jamie Loftus shares a few tasty insights from her New York Times bestseller "Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs."• Use code DAILY to get 10% off your subscription at nextbigideaclub.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can the global response to climate change tell us about the health of modern democratic states?• Ben Ansell is professor of comparative democratic institutions at Oxford and author of “Why Politics Fail”• Want to go behind the scenes of this show? Sign up for our newsletter• To hear more interviews, audio e-courses, and hundreds of author-read book summaries, download the Next Big Idea app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices