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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein
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1) Nowadays, we are relentlessly and endlessly bombarded with new information. There's always much to remember, yet our brains capture so little of that information. Even the stuff that's worth remembering often makes only a short-lived impression on us before disappearing forever.
2) Education has been tainted by the boring tradition of rote learning....
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Buy now to get the Key Takeaways from Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking.
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1) We all experience feelings of inferiority which we carry with us from childhood into adulthood. The first thing you need to do to get over this inferiority complex is figure out where it stems from, perhaps with the aid of a counselor.
2) Always remember that God is on your side. With him, everything is possible, even if you don't...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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1) The definition of an investment is clear: it's an operation which, after careful analysis, promises safety of principal and adequate returns.
2) There are three parts to the process of investing. First, before buying a stock, you must make a thorough analysis of a company and the soundness of its underlying businesses. Second, you need to protect...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jon Gordon's The Energy Bus
Positive people and positive teams manifest positive outcomes. The key ingredient? Positive energy.
In The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy (2007), Jon Gordon explains how to cultivate positive energy in your life and career, which you then can share with your coworkers, customers, organization, team, friends, and family. Gordon uses the...
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Summary of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit is a thorough examination of several case studies about how habit formation and habit change impact daily life. It details the experiences of individuals, corporations, and organizations to illustrate how habits are made and why, how they can be changed, how habits of all kinds are used in businesses to attract customers or manage employees, and the devastating results of a poorly managed habit…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carey Nieuwhof's At Your Best
After burnout almost took a toll on him several years ago, Carey Nieuwhof discovered key solutions to reorganize his time, energy, and priorities. In At Your Best (2021), he lays out strategies to follow today in order to thrive tomorrow and fight perpetual stress. He provides readers with advice on how to benefit from daily productivity phases, and invites them to create a personalized...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Anne Lamott's Dusk, Night, Dawn.
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1) Our soul is like a lighthouse where we can climb up and see the vast ocean of the universe, and observe anything that passes through it. It's the purest expression of ourselves and of being alive, that no one could wreck.
2) The soul does get damaged throughout life. Circumstances and hardships may wear and tear it, but it is never mortally damaged. It...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jeffrey D. Sachs's The End of Poverty
Can extreme poverty be eradicated in our lifetime? Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a detailed analysis of poverty in the world and proposes solutions in The End of Poverty (2005). He runs an economic diagnostic of the problem and offers practical solutions, integrating misconceptions and countering them. The End of Poverty is built on Sachs' rich background in development economics...
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Summary of Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat is a non-fiction account of the remarkable life story of Joe Rantz. Rantz was a determined young man who overcame personal tragedy and hardship to win a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics as a member of the US rowing team.
When Joe was four, his mother, Nellie, died of throat cancer. His father, Harry, went to Canada. He sent Joe to Pennsylvania to live with his Aunt Alma while his older brother, Fred,...
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Buy now to get the insights from Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker.
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1) After her parents moved from Washington, DC, to Hilo, Hawaii, Jennifer Doudna had a rough childhood trying to fit in. This pushed her to focus on science and books.
2) Amid the rich natural environment of Hawaii, Doudna was most fascinated by the "sleeping grass," which curls its fern-like leaves whenever touched.
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Summary of Andrew S. Grove's High Output Management is a management guide based on Grove's 15 years of managerial experience and knowledge as a co-founder, president, and chief executive of Intel. As Grove emphasizes in a new introduction to the book, globalization and the information revolution have dramatically changed the workforce, making people ever more replaceable and the market ever more competitive.
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Summary of William H. McRaven's Make Your Bed is an expanded version of a commencement speech that the author gave at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Its central theme is that military training as a Navy SEAL imparts 10 lessons about how to overcome the challenges in life that everyone encounters…
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Ethan Kross's Chatter.
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1) Andrew Irving, a British anthropologist and professor at the University of Manchester, recorded about 100 New Yorkers in 2010, all of whom were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, on their thoughts and feelings on death. Unsurprisingly, these recordings were riddled with emotional pain, anxiety, and fear caused by the subjects' diagnoses.
2) Irving conducted the same interview...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Cicely Tyson's Just as I Am.
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1) Cicely Tyson never intended to write an autobiography. She once met Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman to be elected to the Texas Senate, who told her she wouldn't write a book until she had something to say. Cicely felt the same – her life accomplishments spoke for themselves.
2) Yet people all around her were always telling her she should write a book....
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Brandon Turner's The Book on Rental Property Investing
Have you ever dreamed of making millions of dollars without having to hustle? Investing in rental property might be your future. Brandon Turner's The Book on Rental Property Investing (2015) is a must-read for anyone interested in using real estate investing to build wealth or achieve financial independence. Turner imparts practical and exciting tools, tips,...
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Summary of Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is a memoir of Frankl's imprisonment in concentration camps during World War II, and a brief description of the principles of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that he founded.
Frankl and his family were imprisoned in concentration camps during the war. Frankl was held in several camps before he was liberated from the last in 1945. During his time in the camps, Frankl witnessed the extreme...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sarah Knight's Get Your Sh*t Together
You may be currently sitting in bed miserable and mourning a life you wish you'd had, but how do you really get your life together?
In Get Your Sh*t Together (2016), Sarah Knight creates a detailed but simple guide for getting your life back on track. To do so, you need strategy, focus, and commitment, which must be applied to every aspect of life - from writing an email...
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Summary of Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Two-Family House is a novel that follows two families whose lives are closely intertwined. Mort and Abe are brothers who share a two-family house with their respective families in Brooklyn, New York. Unbeknownst to the two men, their wives switch children after giving birth within moments of one another. The story traces the repercussions of that fateful night during the time between 1947 and 1970.
The narrative...
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Summary of David Brooks's The Social Animal explores the role the unconscious mind plays in shaping the course of an individual's life. Author David Brooks uses a narrative construct borrowed from eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau to summarize and analyze humanity's working understanding of cognitive and social development.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Sarah Jakes Roberts's Woman Evolve.
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1) Sarah Jakes Roberts fell in love with Eve in 2018. Roberts was not very fond of Eve at first, thinking that she was easily tempted and manipulated to eat the forbidden fruit, dooming humanity with her recklessness.
2) Roberts initially felt compassion for Eve at a women's conference, and started viewing her from a position of empathy. She wanted to...