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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 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 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 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 Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing
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In Where the Crawdads Sing (2018), Delia Owens juxtaposes a coming of age story and a murder mystery. She reminds readers of the child that is within them, while also subjecting them to the violent yet beautiful secrets of nature.
Isolation influences behavior, and Kya, the protagonist, endures much mistreatment and abandonment by her parents, siblings,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
The more information we receive daily, the more forgetful we become. We are bombarded with data, advice, and opinions, which we anxiously try to stockpile, but we often can't remember key information when we need it. In Building a Second Brain (2022), productivity expert Tiago Forte explains how fixing this problem starts with one simple step: writing things down. With the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Andy Staples and Trevor Moawad's It Takes What It Takes
You can learn to train your most important asset, your mind, with Andy Staples and Trevor Moawad's It Takes What It Takes (2020). Training your mind is similar to training your muscles in the sports world, so you can be strong and at your best when critical moments arrive. Training will expand your capacities. It will improve your self-esteem and relationships,...
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Summary of Patrick J. Kennedy's A Common Struggle is a memoir chronicling his struggles with mental illness and addiction. Patrick uses himself and his family as an example of the stigma and confusion surrounding mental illness in the US and explains the history of mental illness and mental health policy in that context…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kati Marton's The Chancellor
The chancellor of Germany does not rule with sovereign power, but by persuasion and support of its political parties. That's what makes Angela Merkel's contributions to Germany, Europe, and the entire world during her 16 years as chancellor so remarkable.
Kati Marton's The Chancellor (2021) details this legacy from Merkel's humble beginnings in East Germany through her meteoric rise...
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Summary of Sarah Hepola's Blackout, Sarah Hepola examines how she drank, why she drank, how others responded to her, and the misfortunes that occurred during her journey to sobriety.
Sarah grew up in Dallas, Texas, and was brought up in a household of modest chaos. Sarah's mother was the center of her small universe, but eventually decided to go back to school and become a therapist. Fights between Sarah's parents were regular and unpleasant. Her...
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Summary of David Brooks's The Social Animal explores the role the unconscious mind plays in shaping the course of an individual's life. Author David Brooks uses a narrative construct borrowed from eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau to summarize and analyze humanity's working understanding of cognitive and social development.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Ethan Kross's Chatter.
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1) Andrew Irving, a British anthropologist and professor at the University of Manchester, recorded about 100 New Yorkers in 2010, all of whom were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, on their thoughts and feelings on death. Unsurprisingly, these recordings were riddled with emotional pain, anxiety, and fear caused by the subjects' diagnoses.
2) Irving conducted the same interview...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman's How God Changes Your Brain
In How God Changes Your Brain (2009), Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist, and Mark Robert Waldman, a therapist, look at trust in God through a scientific lens, examining how spiritual activities and beliefs change the human brain for the better.
The human brain's architecture and functions are altered by meditation and spiritual activities in...
16) Summary of H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace's The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace's The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
Just like magicians, spies need to do their job without anyone noticing. In the 1950s, the CIA even hired magicians to teach its agents how to use stealth and trickery. In The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception (2009), espionage experts H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace detail how and why the CIA hired its first...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Loretta Graziano Breuning's Habits of a Happy Brain
Did you ever wonder if you can change your bad habits? Loretta Graziano Breuning's Habits of a Happy Brain (2015) says you can, and it's possible to build good habits in just forty-five days. Breuning first looks at the different brain chemicals that cause humans to be happy or miserable. She examines how they operate and why they're vital. Then she explains...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Moises Naim's The End of Power.
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1) Power is simply defined as the ability to make others do or stop doing something. Power as we know it today is undergoing a huge transformation, one which has potential to change history and the world.
2) Power is changing because it is no longer solely in the hands of the big players in the world, as in large institutions or organizations. It's slowly...
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Summary of Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb narrates the years preceding the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. It focuses on how a group of international physicists uncovered nature's potential for destruction through advances in nuclear physics and quantum theory. They harnessed the power of physics to develop the first atomic bombs...