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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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Summary of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls is a World War II-era novel based on real people and events. The novel tells the intertwined stories of three women: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite and philanthropist; Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women; and Herta Oberheuser, a Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück.
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Summary of Scott Kelly's Endurance is the memoir of a retired American astronaut who spent nearly a year on the International Space Station (ISS) starting in 2015. Alternating between scenes from the ISS and the story of his life, Scott describes the emotional and physical demands as well as the many rewards of being an astronaut…
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Summary of Frans de Waal's Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? provides an overview of the history of animal cognition research and the most recent discoveries about animal intelligence. As researchers continue to improve methods for testing animals' cognitive abilities, they are discovering that animals process, respond to, and act on stimuli in ways previously assumed to be exclusively human…
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Eknath Easwaran's The Bhagavad Gita.
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1) The Bhagavad Gita serves as a personal guide. It offers questions and answers on how to successfully survive in a world full of obstacles and change. It is a map for life.
2) The central subject of the Bhagavad Gita is not the external war, but the war within. It tackles the fight for self-mastery that is present within every person, a battle that...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from John Jaquish & Henry Alkire's Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
Fitness experts have long argued for the benefits of exercises that require weightlifting and cardio. However, real-life results have consistently negated their arguments.
In Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time (2020), John Jaquish and Henry Alkire argue against mainstream fitness and reveal its pitfalls. In fact, fitness science has overlooked several...
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Summary of Robert Cialdini's Pre-suasion is a research-driven examination of the ways that framing a persuasive argument can influence its effectiveness. Extensive research finds that certain ways of setting up a persuasion can be more effective than a well-planned persuasive argument on its own.
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Summary of Bruce Lipton's The Biology of Belief by cell biologist Bruce Lipton explores the power of the mind to influence health and well being. The Biology of Belief provides scientific proof that debunks the notion of fixed genetic inheritance, or that genes create reality...
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Summary of Tom Brady's The TB12 Method is an athletic training manual that reveals the details of Brady's famously strict personal training regimen, which he uses to complement team training exercise. Developed in close collaboration with Brady's longtime trainer Alex Guerrero, the TB12 Method is a holistic lifestyle program that incorporates deep tissue work, exercise, nutrition, and brain care…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell's The Cult of We
In The Cult of We (2021), Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell detail the different forms of corruption that took hold of WeWork, the once-heralded office rental company, including reckless spending, unprofessional behavior, lack of organization, and constant changes of executives and managers and their responsibilities. The work environment was challenging, especially...
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Summary of Michelle Obama's Becoming recounts the familial, educational, romantic, and political experiences that culminated in her tenure as first lady of the United States between 2009 and 2017. A native of Chicago, Michelle was an ambitious student who grew into a driven adult...
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Summary of David Priess's The President's Book of Secrets is a journalistic examination of the history of the President's Daily Brief (PDB), a short, top-secret summary of the most important intelligence delivered to the president of the United States each day. The PDB is a document with some of the tightest access controls in the world.
Prior to Harry Truman's presidency, presidents generally were not the primary intended audience of intelligence...
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Summary of Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness is a business memoir that outlines the company's customer service-focused model. In 2009, when Zappos announced that larger retailer Amazon would be acquiring the company, Hsieh recalled that his first attempted enterprise was a worm farm when he was nine years old. ..
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Fiona Hill's There Is Nothing for You Here
Fiona Hill has a unique perspective of the world, having spent time in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia. She has seen the good and bad of all three countries, and realized that the three aren't all that different.
In There Is Nothing for You Here, Hill explains the three countries' post-industrial struggles after World War II, framed within the contest...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Quint Studer's The Busy Leader's Handbook
Being a great leader starts by getting the fundamentals right and practicing the little things. In The Busy Leader's Handbook (2019), Quint Studer addresses leaders willing to make the change necessary to take their companies to the next level. He gives simple and straightforward tips about engaging employees, recreating cultures, and building a high-performance company....
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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,...