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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 Haylie Pomroy with Eve Adamson's The Fast Metabolism Diet is an instructional overview of the diet plan Pomroy developed in her work as a dietician for a range of athletes and celebrities. The diet's objective is to repair dysfunctional metabolic processes to make the body more likely to burn food as fuel rather than storing it as fat…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jonathan Fields's Sparked
In Sparked (2021), Jonathan Fields immerses readers in the universe of Sparketypes, an entirely new concept of impulses that make you feel alive at work and in life in general, so that you learn to avoid what drains you. There are ten Sparketypes and each person can find at least one of them in their personality traits. Sparked will provide you with an in-depth look at what sparks you,...
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Summary of Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind explores the benefits that psychedelics can provide, both for those suffering from mental illness and for those trying to cultivate new perspectives and habits. Before these drugs were prohibited, there was an extensive history of research into their effects in North America and Europe, and studies that utilize lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and magic mushrooms continue today.
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Summary of W. Chan Kim & Renée A. Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy is the 2015 update to the classic business strategy text of the same name originally published in 2005. The text offers a practical handbook to business students and entrepreneurs who wish to rise above the fray of the competition, become pioneers in previously uncharted market territory, and gain access to impressive growth opportunities and an untapped customer base.
Most businesses...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sanjay Gupta's World War C
In World War C (2021), neurosurgeon and renowned medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta explores the Covid-19 pandemic from every angle, including the mental and physical repercussions the virus has left on people of all ages.
As a frontliner who directly dealt with the crisis, Gupta provides key solutions to cope with Covid-19, given that the virus is likely to persist in the environment...
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Summary of Matt Taibbi's The Divide approaches the complicated topic of the unequal treatment of defendants in the United States criminal justice system based on wealth, through individual stories and rarely heard cases revealed in court proceedings.
In the US, bankers and financial officials whose unethical and illegal behavior contributed to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic scandals rarely faced prosecution for their activities....
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Tom O'Neill's CHAOS
As time goes by, information that was once seen as fact may become irrelevant. The 1969 murders by the Manson Family is a case in point. Journalist Tom O'Neill revisits the murders in CHAOS (2019), reassessing a perplexing case involving not only Hollywood celebrities and cult leader Charles Manson but also the shocking role of the CIA in hiding the truth.
O'Neill finds holes within the narrative...
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Summary of Suki Kim's Without You, There Is No Us is a memoir by Suki Kim. In her book, Suki portrays what it was like for a Korean American to teach English to the sons of the North Korean elite during the last few months of the life of Kim Jong-il. Suki Kim was born in South Korea, but she moved with her family to the United States when she was thirteen years old. When her homeland was divided into North and South Korea, with members of her family...
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Summary of Amanda & Gina DeJesus With Mary Jordan & Kevin Sullivan's Hope, the story of two of the three young women held captive by Ariel Castro, is a graphic and gripping account of a decade of abduction, assault, and abuse in a rundown house on Seymour Street in a rough section of Cleveland.
Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, the two youngest of the three captives, wrote their stories together because they wanted everyone to know the truth, not only...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Elizabeth Warren's Persist
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1) Elizabeth Warren started teaching at Riverdale Elementary in New Jersey in 1970. By the end of the school year, she was fired due to her pregnancy with her daughter Amelia. Five years later son Alex came along. Warren eventually went back to teaching and got a law degree.
2) Back then, pregnant women had practically no rights. Employers would often ask very...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Miranda Devine's Laptop from Hell
Joe Biden announced his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election, and two weeks later, his son Hunter left his laptop at a repair shop and never came back. In Laptop from Hell (2021), Miranda Devine exposes the contents of the abandoned laptop. Hunter's life was falling apart in the spring of 2019. His brother Beau had died, he was deep into his crack addiction, and the...