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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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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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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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Summary of Jessica Bennett's Feminist Fight Club is a guide for women to counteract behaviors and trends in the workplace that disproportionately damage their ability to succeed. Bennett's outlook on feminism was shaped early in her career by regular meetings with other women to discuss obstacles and share their successes in what they called a "feminist fight club."
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run With The Wolves.
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1) A Wildish Woman bears similarities to wild animals, as they share the same spirit and laborious efforts, with their keen sensing, deep intuition, and devotion.
2) After studying different animals, Estés started understanding the feminine instinctual psyche in a deeper way.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sam Quinones's The Least of Us
Sam Quinones's The Least of Us (2021) is an in-depth analysis of drug use and addiction in America, and how it has been exacerbated by Mexican smugglers, drug traffickers, and pharmaceutical companies. Quinones chronicles the American opioid epidemic and explores the far-reaching damage generated by the meth and fentanyl crises. This follow-up to his bestseller Dreamland is a powerful...
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Summary of Peter J. D'Adamo's Eat Right 4 Your Type is a detailed diet book based on D'Adamo's groundbreaking research that links an individual's blood type to foods that support overall health and wellness. The Blood Type Diet is not a cure-all for disease-there are many factors, such as genetics and environment, that play into the development of illnesses. However, eating according to blood type can help people boost the body's natural immune systems...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Michalowicz's The Pumpkin Plan
Pumpkins come in different sizes, shapes, colors, and conditions, but they all start to look the same when you take picky kids to a pumpkin patch - except for one. There's always one extraordinary, enormous, prize-winning pumpkin that draws all the attention. In The Pumpkin Plan (2012), Mike Michalowicz explains how just like in a pumpkin patch, among entrepreneurs, only the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Ron Friedman's Decoding Greatness
We've been told for generations that there are two ways to succeed: talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness (2021), award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman reveals a powerful third path-reverse engineering-that has discreetly launched legends in a variety of industries, from artists, writers, and chefs to athletes, inventors, and entrepreneurs.
Friedman reveals the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jason Fung, Eve Mayer & Megan Ramos's Life in the Fasting Lane
Intermittent fasting is becoming more and more popular. Life in the Fasting Lane (2020) is a dive into every aspect of fasting for weight control and overall health. Eve Mayer offers her personal experience with fasting, Jason Fung explains the science and debunks the myths, and Megan Ramos chimes in with tips that have worked for her patients. Both...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jeff Benedict's The Dynasty
In The Dynasty (2020), Jeff Benedict plots the history of the legendary NFL team New England Patriots on a timeline that stretches from its beginning through the 2019 season. Benedict focuses on the dynamic relationship between the three names that became synonymous with the franchise and devoted their lives to it: owner Robert Kraft, coach Bill Belichick, and quarterback Tom Brady....
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Summary of John C. Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing demonstrates why index funds, a type of mutual fund, should make up the majority of the average investment portfolio. Index funds closely match the performance of a given financial market by allowing investors to own a small portion of the entire market through a diversified portfolio that can include stocks and bonds...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Yeonmi Park's In Order to Live
In Order to Live (2015) by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers is a story of escape, freedom, and learning to be compassionate with yourself. In her memoir, Yeonmi tells how she and her family tried to escape the dictatorship of North Korea. They fled to China in 2007, then to South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014.
Yeonmi tells the story of her childhood,...
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