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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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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 main key ideas from Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea
In Into the Raging Sea (2018), Rachel Slade takes readers on a journey aboard El Faro's final voyage from Jacksonville to Puerto Rico, re-creating the tense, eerie final hours before the cargo ship got caught in Hurricane Joaquin and sank. Slade chronicles a series of bad decisions by the captain, unreliable weather forecasts, safety shortcuts, and other issues that led to...
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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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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...
10) 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 Liz Wiseman's Multipliers, Revised and Updated
There is more intelligence inside our organizations than we are using. The way to extract that intelligence? Become a Multiplier.
In Multipliers, Revised and Updated (2017), Liz Wiseman revisits the game changing concept of Multiplier leadership she first pioneered in 2010. Our world is evolving at a breakneck pace. To keep up and build the kinds of workplaces where...
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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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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 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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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...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael E. Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited
As a small business owner, your business is the clearest reflection of who you are and what you want from life.
Michael E. Gerber explains this and more in The E-Myth Revisited. Step by step, Gerber shows how to shift your focus away from what your business is producing, and toward how well your business is producing it for your customers. Every business is a set of interconnected...
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Summary of George W. Bush's 41 offers an inside look at his father, George H.W. Bush, and the family that produced the forty-first and forty-third presidents of the United States.
On his ninetieth birthday, George H.W. made a parachute jump despite serious health issues. He said it was his second greatest birthday wish, after happiness for his family. Though his family worried, he had always been excited by a new adventure. When he landed safely,...
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