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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 key takeaways from Rhonda Byrne's The Greatest Secret.
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1) The greatest secret to living a stress-free and endlessly happy life has always been right in front of us. It has been told countless times in every single religion, and yet very few people know what it is. The secret is that we've mistaken our own identities.
2) We may search for happiness in materialistic things, but like the items themselves, the...
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Summary of Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There generalizes from his personal experience as a business consultant to explain how successful leaders can diagnose and correct interpersonal problems that are holding them back at work. Using data-driven analysis and simple behavioral modification techniques, senior executives and other leaders can improve their relationships with employees by adopting an attitude of humility and...
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Summary of Daniel G. Amen M.D.'s Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by psychiatrist Daniel D. Amen is a non-fiction book based on the idea that brain functioning can be improved, and such improvement can drastically change lives for the better. Amen's approach to healing the brain is based on more than 100,000 scans he and his colleagues have conducted at the Amen Clinics, a medical facility that adopts an integrated approach to brain health.
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Summary of Mohamed A. El Erian's The Only Game in Town is a discussion of the role of central banks in confronting the current financial and economic dangers facing the world. Following the financial collapse of 2008, central banks pursued aggressive and innovative policies in an effort to stabilize the world economy. Policy makers have failed to enact the measures necessary to ensure growth, and so central banks have had to continue to innovate and...
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Summary of Larry Olmsted's Real Food/Fake Food is an investigative overview of the food industry's often intentional efforts to mislead consumers about the origin and identity of the products that they eat. Author Larry Olmsted highlights the most outrageous examples of food frauds perpetrated upon the American people and offers recommendations for ways that consumers can reclaim their grocery bags and fill their dinner plates with foods they can...
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Summary of Mary Roach's Grunt examines technological and medical research in the military. Each chapter focuses on a different topic-for example, diarrhea among soldiers-and then presents historical background, interviews with scientists and affected military personnel, and possible solutions to the problem.
Military research in both news accounts and films is usually presented as a matter of technology and combat equipment, such as faster airplanes,...
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Summary of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile introduces and explains hormesis, or the way that some systems benefit from the chaos and stress that normally would destroy fragile things.
Any cohesive system of cooperators or processes composed of smaller participating actors, from the human body to the stock market, can be fragile, robust, or antifragile…
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Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat brings together more than two dozen narratives of patients with many different neurological impairments. The narratives illuminate medical details of the diseases while illustrating how those diseases play out in a patient's thoughts and actions, bringing a more human aspect to the ailments…
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Summary of Hal Elrod's The Miracle Morning is a self-help book that explores the key point that the start of a person's day not only sets the tone for that day, but also has a profound impact on the rest of a person's life. Indeed, Elrod explains that ninety-five percent of people struggle their entire lives because they fail to work on personal development, fail to start their day off right, and fail to choose to live differently…
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Summary of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny warns Americans that democracy as a system of government is not indestructible. In fact, during the twentieth century, several European nations allowed democratic societies to fail by electing fascist or communist rulers and complying with authoritarian rule…
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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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Summary of Chip Heath's The Power of Moments explores how life and work can be enriched by the creation of special experiences. These defining moments encompass people's most meaningful experiences and encounters and can deepen relationships among individuals, organizations, and customers…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Chris Wallace's Countdown bin Laden
In Countdown bin Laden (2021), Chris Wallace, alongside Mitch Weiss, sets out a detailed account of the CIA's 247-day preparations for the raid that ultimately led to Osama bin Laden's death. Wallace and Weiss write a thrilling new description of the last eight months of CIA gatherings and careful military preparations that resulted in the revenge that the US had been looking...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Newton's Destiny of Souls
In Destiny of Souls (2009), hypnotherapist Michael Newton presents his vision of the spirit world and how it works. Based on case studies of his patients, Newton answers pressing questions about the life of a soul in the spirit world: its birth, incarnation, reincarnation, and development both on Earth and beyond. After death on Earth, the soul travels back to the spirit world...