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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Thibaut Meurisse's Master Your Emotions
If you want to take control of your life, you don't need to wait for the day when a random breakthrough delivers you the insight you need to change. In Master Your Emotions (2018), Thibaut Meurisse provides a practical guide to help you jump straight into the driver's seat of your own life, steering yourself in the direction of inner peace and what you truly desire.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction
Technological advances are often lauded as unbiased and fair. But in Weapons of Math Destruction (2016), data scientist Cathy O'Neil posits that the opposite is true. Today's world is largely ruled by mathematical algorithms that decide most aspects of life, from education to work, insurance to elections. Existing models have proven to be harmful. They promote inequalities...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Nicholas Kardaras's Glow Kids
A pandemic is overtaking kids today - but it's not Covid. It's the glowing screens they carry everywhere. In Glow Kids (2016), addiction expert Nicholas Kardaras explores how technology, especially interactive media such as video games, affects human development. Glowing screens can change the structure and composition of the brain by offering high amounts of satisfaction for long...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Most actors are artists who shape their lives and legacies through mixed and harsh experiences. They are constantly at the mercy of script writers, directors, producers, critics, and audiences.
In Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011), Rob Lowe uncovers the burdens he endured as a child and the many ups and downs he experienced in building his acting career. He describes...
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Summary of Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow is the story of a Russian aristocrat-turned-waiter who lives 32 years of his life under house arrest at the Hotel Metropol in Moscow. Set in post-revolutionary Russia, the novel follows its protagonist, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, as he develops new friendships, family, and loves, all while confined within the walls of the Metropol.
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Summary of Tara Westover's Educated is a memoir about how an uneducated young woman raised in the remote mountains of Idaho came to earn a doctorate from Cambridge University. Raised outside of society, in a violent household run by Mormon fundamentalists, Tara never saw herself as a person with choices or prospects...
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Summary of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion evaluates popular arguments for the existence of God. The idea that God is not an object that can be accessed and reviewed using human reason is rejected. Instead, evidence that proves with at least 51% certainty is presented to prove that God does, in fact, not exist, casting reasonable doubt on the efficacy and usefulness of belief in God.
Genuine curiosity as disciplined by a sound scientific method...
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Jean Louise Finch tries to go home again and finds tiny Maycomb, Alabama grappling with the emerging civil rights movement in the mid-1950s. Set nearly twenty years after the events in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's classic American novel, Go Set a Watchman looks at the earlier book's beloved characters in a different and, sometimes shocking, light. Go Set a Watchman, however, was written first, and became the groundwork from which To Kill a...
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Summary of Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson's No-Drama Discipline explains how parents can diminish disorder while strengthening their child's brain. The authors' approach to discipline, based on the latest in neuroscience at the time of publication, enables parents to turn meltdowns, temper tantrums, and everyday frustrations into teachable moments that strengthen the parent-child relationship while increasing cooperation and emotional resilience......
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Sarah Jakes Roberts's Woman Evolve.
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1) Sarah Jakes Roberts fell in love with Eve in 2018. Roberts was not very fond of Eve at first, thinking that she was easily tempted and manipulated to eat the forbidden fruit, dooming humanity with her recklessness.
2) Roberts initially felt compassion for Eve at a women's conference, and started viewing her from a position of empathy. She wanted to...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard's Killing The Mob.
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1) In 1924, John Edgar Hoover, a law school graduate, possessed an exceptional work ethic that led President Calvin Coolidge to put him in charge of America's first national law enforcement agency, the Bureau of Investigation, BOI.
2) The BOI was known for being a corrupt agency, which led Congress to limit its powers. Its agents were not...
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Summary of Adam Fisher's Valley of Genius is an account of how a region of California became the central hub for technological innovation in the latter half of the twentieth century. Journalist and author Adam Fisher walks readers through the creation of several technology industries, using interviews from engineers, programmers, inventors, and investors to explain the cultures behind each digital revolution...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story
In Based on a True Story (2016), Norm Macdonald pieces together a tale of a once famed Canadian comedian who became a Saturday Night Live writer and presenter at the peak of his career. Norm merges together two plot lines, a main one led by himself, as he dives deeper and deeper into the world of gambling and morphine abuse, and a secondary one led by a fictional ghostwriter,...
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What does it take to make something-an activity, a work of art, a company-great? What are the factors that distinguish the merely good from the truly great? In Summary of Jim Collins's Good to Great, Jim Collins offers insight into what makes a business truly great…
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Summary of Hope Jahren's Lab Girl, Hope Jahren describes the life she's lived and the knowledge she's learned as a scientist trying to find her way in the world. Focusing mostly on a period of professional development that stretches from 1997 to 2008, the bulk of the narrative follows Jahren from her first appointment as a professor in Atlanta to her current job at the University of Hawaii…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jamie Raskin's Unthinkable
In Unthinkable (2022), Jamie Raskin details two intensely traumatic events that he never expected: the suicide of his son Tommy, followed within a week by the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Although immensely different, these events became intertwined in the Democratic congressman's psyche. Raskin was dead set on doing his best to impeach Donald Trump and preserve democracy. He...
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Summary of Andrew S. Grove's High Output Management is a management guide based on Grove's 15 years of managerial experience and knowledge as a co-founder, president, and chief executive of Intel. As Grove emphasizes in a new introduction to the book, globalization and the information revolution have dramatically changed the workforce, making people ever more replaceable and the market ever more competitive.
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Summary of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow is a primer on the strategies that people use to make decisions and evaluate risks, a psychological subdiscipline known as behavioral economics. The author explores the influential psychological theories that he developed in conjunction with his colleague Amos Tversky in the 1970s and beyond; his own work on subjects like regret, memories, and happiness; and the work of other researchers who have...