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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 Chris Voss & Tahl Raz's Never Split the Difference is a guide to using hostage negotiation techniques in business and personal negotiations.
Modern negotiation strategies taught in business school usually center on classic texts that describe negotiation without factoring in emotions or irrational behavior. In reality, all negotiations involve emotional factors and illogical reactions. And in hostage scenarios, "splitting the difference"...
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Love is not the same for all people, neither is passion, sex, or intimacy. Sometimes what one person finds thrilling, another can only hope to understand. These are the lessons learned from the experiences of Anastasia Steele after meeting Christian Grey in the now famous Fifty Shades of Grey series. In this book, the motivations, thoughts, and introspections of the man who introduced Ana to the world of bondage and discipline, Christian Grey, are...
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David Axelrod was the son of Joseph Axelrod, who left Eastern Europe at the age of eleven, and his wife, Myril Davidson, also a daughter of Jewish immigrants. Joseph became a psychologist with a small practice that insisted on charging patients a minimal fee. He also occasionally administered psychological tests at settlement houses. Myril, on the other hand, rose to the top on Madison Avenue as an advertising executive. Their marriage ended by the...
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Summary of Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a self-help book designed to help smokers kick the habit and find freedom from the tyranny of their addiction. To date, Carr's unique method has helped millions of people stop using cigarettes, tobacco, and other forms of nicotine…
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Summary of Philippa Gregory's Three Sisters, Three Queens is a novel that follows more than 30 years in the life of Margaret Tudor. Starting in 1501, when she's 11 years old, the story traces Margaret's movements between England and Scotland, where she struggles to maintain her grip on power after the death of her husband, the king. Through moments of triumph and sorrow, she maintains an impassioned correspondence with Mary and Katherine, her sister...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from David Richo's How to be an Adult in Relationships
The human heart has much more love in it than it can possibly give out in a lifetime. Psychotherapist David Richo's How to Be an Adult in Relationships (2002) lays out a strategy for realizing that limitless potential of love through the five A's: Attention, Acceptance, Appreciation, Affection, and Allowing.
Intimate love is mysterious and demanding; many of...
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Summary of Walter Isaacson's Einstein is a meticulous and engaging account of the life of Albert Einstein, best known for discovering the principle of relativity. The narrative uncovers Einstein's nuanced personality and describes the ways in which his passions governed his personal, political, and scientific life…
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Summary of Beth Macy's Dopesick details the explosion of OxyContin use in Appalachia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the widespread heroin addiction that ensued when medical providers began restricting access to prescription opioids in the late 2000s and 2010s. Journalist and author Beth Macy, who once worked as a reporter in Roanoke, Virginia, traces the efforts of local activists, doctors, law enforcement officials, and parents to combat opioid dependence......
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Summary of Arianna Huffington's The Sleep Revolution is a call to action to make sleep a priority and reclaim the night for the basic human need of rest. Millions of people use nighttime hours for activities other than sleep. They choose to prioritize work or succumb to an addiction to technology rather than invest those precious hours in sleep. In the United States and increasingly around the world, work culture regards sleep as an inefficient waste...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mihir A. Desai's How Finance Works
A lot of people have no idea how anything about finance works. However, finance is an essential part in any successful career, and in How Finance Works (2019), economist Mihir A. Desai offers ideas and techniques that you can master and use for the rest of your life. Mihir guides you through the complex financial world by thoroughly unpacking it. He covers the foundations of...
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Summary of Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries is a personal account of the famous magazine editor's tenure as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, culled from excerpts of her own private journals. Beginning when she was drafted for the job and tracing her steps as she resuscitated the ailing magazine, Brown examines key moments in both the magazine's history and in her own life…
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Summary of Allan Pease and Barbara Pease's The Definitive Book of Body Language is a comprehensive guide to non-verbal communication. An expanded version of Allen Pease's Body Language (1981), The Definitive Book of Body Language outlines the basics of body language, including expressions, gestures, and physical movements, and offers supporting scientific data to explain what body language telegraphs in everyday exchanges...
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1) All too often, our society seems to cherish doing things the hard way. This results in the mindset that in order to overachieve, we must overdo. This can lead to problems down the line, because if we're overworking, we're making things more difficult for ourselves.
2) To invert this assumption about our world and work, we need to ask if the opposite is true: "Could our work be made easy?" Asking this simple question can...