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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 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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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 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 Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury was published in early January 2018, four days ahead of schedule because of skyrocketing demand provoked by President Donald Trump's attempt to block its publication. The book paints a vivid portrait of bumbling ineptitude on the part of the president and much of his inner circle during the first 200 days of his presidency…
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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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Progress is the goal of the future. Horizontal and vertical are the two kinds of progress. Horizontal progress means more of what is currently working. Another word for horizontal progress is globalization, the act of taking a product and integrating it world wide. Vertical progress comes from doing new things that have not been done before. Technology, the new and better way of doing something, is another word for vertical progress. In terms of the...
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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 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 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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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 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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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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Summary of Jocko Willink's Discipline Equals Freedom is a collection of tips and strategies for living a disciplined life. Whether one's long-term goals relate to diet, exercise, or work, self-imposed discipline is a tried and true methodology for reaching an objective…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Amanda and Anna Kloots's Live Your Life
In Live Your Life (2021), Amanda Kloots, with the help of her sister Anna Kloots, narrates the story of how she loved her husband, actor-singer Nick Cordero, and tragically lost him to COVID. Amanda wants to preserve Nick's legacy and share it with the world. She wants her son to read it and know his father when he grows up. The book takes the reader beyond the journey...
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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...