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Summary of Crystal Paine's Say Goodbye to Survival Mode is a self-help book that targets women who are struggling to stay on top of life's daily tasks. The book offers tips as to how readers can tackle and improve various aspects of their lives. Through personal stories from the author, other experts and bloggers, and the author's blog readers, these lessons come to life to demonstrate empathy with the reader while showing how these tips can help...
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Summary of David McCullough's The Wright Brothers is a detailed biographical account of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their journey and achievements in the early, burgeoning world of human aviation. A strong, close-knit family and a natural love for learning and tinkering set the Wright brothers on their path to historical greatness from a young age. Always rife with ingenuity, the Wright brothers preceded their flight endeavors as bicycle mechanics,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Renee Engeln's Beauty Sick
The pandemic of beauty sickness is ravaging the female world and paralyzing women's potential. How often do women talk about their physical flaws? How often do they complain about their weight or wrinkles? How many young girls feel too ugly to be seen every day? In Beauty Sick (2017), Renee Engeln explores this devastating pandemic and how it affects women's lives, psychology, and...
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Summary of Shawn Achor's The Happiness Advantage is a bestselling book by Shawn Achor which posits that happiness is a precursor to success. Achor outlines practical steps that individual workers and team leaders can take to increase the odds of positive outcomes and professional advancement...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from John Boehner's On the House: A Washington Memoir.
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1) In Washington, people care too much about power and appearing powerful. Power goes to their heads way too often. John Boehner never cared about looking powerful. If you have to go around saying that you're powerful, it means you probably are not.
2) Politicians like Donald Trump believe their titles grant them the power to do whatever...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Shannon Lee's Be Water, My Friend
Bruce Lee is an icon in the worlds of martial arts and cinema. He remains an inspiration to this day, but we should never strive to be Bruce Lee. We should strive to be our most authentic and truest selves.
This is what Bruce's daughter, Shannon Lee, explains in Be Water, My Friend (2020). Bruce's philosophy for martial arts, and life, was to be like water - constantly in motion,...
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Summary of Patricia Evans's The Verbally Abusive Relationship is an examination of male psychological violence against female domestic partners. Although males can also be the victims, verbal abuse is almost exclusively perpetrated by men against women, which is why Evans focuses on the actions of male abusers…
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On March 13, 2015, Pope Francis announced a Holy Year of Mercy, to commence on December 8, 2015, and continue through November 20, 2016. In Summary of Pope Francis's The Name of God is Mercy, Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli explores this concept via an extended interview with Pope Francis, elaborating on the notion of mercy through the pope's eyes, as both man and priest…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Glenn Livingston's Never Binge Again
Glenn Livingston's Never Binge Again (2015) offers advice on how to get over unhealthy eating habits, tame the Pig within and ignore its squeals, and control cravings. Written from the perspective of a formerly obese and food-obsessed guy, Never Binge Again debunks common dieting approaches entirely based on healing and self-love, and focuses on the importance of 100 percent...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Gregory Zuckerman's A Shot to Save the World
Throughout history, people have tried to stop the spread of contagions - but with little success until the discovery of the smallpox vaccine in the late eighteenth century. Since then, vaccines and treatments have been found for many more diseases. Now, whenever a new epidemic emerges, researchers and pharmaceutical companies start a scientific race towards groundbreaking...
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Summary of Richard Branson's Losing My Virginity is a memoir focusing on the founding and development of the entrepreneur's multibillion dollar corporation, the Virgin Group. Switching seamlessly between descriptions of inventive business deals and extreme outdoor adventures, Branson tells the story of his unique work life...
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Summary of Patrick Lencioni's The Ideal Team Player posits that in order to succeed-especially in a work environment-one must be a team player. Business leaders must be able to identify and hire team players to secure the best possible advantage over their competitors and leverage all the benefits of teamwork. Ideal team players share three core virtues: They are hungry, humble, and smart. To illustrate the ideal team player model in practice, Lencioni...
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Summary of Robert Wright's Why Buddhism Is True considers Buddhism through the lens of evolutionary psychology, a discipline that regards natural selection as the provenance of many mental traits. Focusing on his personal experience with mindfulness meditation, Wright describes a path to truth, using ideas from the realms of psychology and modern, scientifically influenced philosophy to illuminate ancient wisdom…
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Summary of Max Lugavere with Paul Grewal's Genius Foods is a self-help book that teaches readers how to maximize brain health. Taking simple but important steps like eating nutritious food and getting a good night's sleep, individuals can boost brain power and improve overall health in as little as two weeks…
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Summary of Simon Sinek's Find Your Why is a step-by-step manual for individuals and organizations that wish to identify a sense of purpose. It builds on the concepts outlined in Sinek's first book, Start with Why (2009), and shares practical strategies for exploring professional values that are deeply felt but difficult to articulate.
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Buy now to get the Key Takeaways from Craig Groeschel's Winning the War in Your Mind.
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1) Satan makes your mind his battlefield and uses lies as his weapon. By controlling your thoughts with lies, Satan gains control of your life.
2) Believing a lie makes it impact your life as if it was a truth.
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Summary of Jaycee Dugard's A Stolen Life is a memoir by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped at age 11 and held captive in a hidden backyard compound in Antioch, California, for 18 years.
On June 10, 1991, in a small community near Lake Tahoe, a strange car approaches Jaycee as she is walking to the school bus. A man reaches out of the window, zaps Jaycee with a stun gun, and forces her into the back seat.
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Summary of Gary Keller's The Millionaire Real Estate Agent explains how a real estate agent can build a lucrative business and routinely net $1 million or more in personal income by copying techniques from high-earning industry professionals. Authors Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, and Jay Papasan use interviews with dozens of top real estate agents, along with their own experiences in the field, to outline a strategy even novice agents can use to reach...
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Summary of Adam Grant's Originals provide an insightful window into the most innovative and creative minds that society has ever known. By investigating the reasons why some entrepreneurs were able to effectively transmit an idea or develop a product with mainstream acceptance while others were not, Adam Grant illuminates the ways in which even the most risk averse can try to become what he calls "originals" in their own right.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from John C. Maxwell's Developing The Leader Within You 2.0.
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1) Although the subject was overlooked in the '90s, people have come to realize the importance of leadership and the life-altering effect it has.
2) People make all kinds of wrong assumptions when it comes to developing leadership. Everyone can be a leader, it's just a matter of who is willing to put in the effort to become one.