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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Will Bulsiewicz's Fiber Fueled
Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome (2020) is a self-help health book about restoring balance to our gut microbiome, which is essentially a diverse community of microorganisms that coexist inside our body and serve a very important purpose – to keep us healthy. Dr. Will Bulsiewicz explains that...
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Summary of William Davis's Undoctored explores how, by utilizing informational resources and improving nutrition, people can take ownership of their own well being. Health care has become a big business driven by private hospitals and the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries…
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from William Green's Richer, Wiser, Happier.
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1) According to Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, "A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor it."
2) There are several winning principles that you can clone when it comes to making successful investments.
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Summary of William H. McRaven's Make Your Bed is an expanded version of a commencement speech that the author gave at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Its central theme is that military training as a Navy SEAL imparts 10 lessons about how to overcome the challenges in life that everyone encounters…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from William H. McRaven's Sea Stories
Sea Stories (2019) is the autobiography of four-star Admiral William H. McRaven. As a five-year-old, McRaven would sneak around the American Officers' Club in Fontainebleau, France, and hide near the bar while his father sat with three other Air Force officers. Their tales of air-to-air combat, life on the front lines, and bold escapes fueled McRaven's yearning for adventure....
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Summary of William H. Zinsser's On Writing Well is a collection of guiding principles that can help aspiring writers craft captivating works of professional-quality nonfiction in a variety of genres. Author William Zinsser argues that all writing can be improved by committing to clear, simple prose...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from William Strauss and Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning.
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1) America's future is looking bleak. Societal standards have degraded, and people are becoming more entitled and self-focused instead of collectively working for the betterment of the nation.
2) About every two decades, America enters a new era - a new turning, totaling four turnings in the span of a century.
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Summary of Willie Nelson's It's a Long Story is country singer Willie Nelson's memoir. The book chronicles his life as a musician, songwriter, and social activist and delves into his turbulent personal life and internal emotional struggles.
On April 29, 1933 in Abbott, Texas, Willie Nelson was born to Ira and Myrle Nelson, a fiddler and singer respectively, two years after his sister, Bobbie. Willie's parents divorced when Willie was six months old....
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Summary of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath. The novel begins with the stories of two African half-sisters of the Fante and Asante tribes: Effia and Esi. Effia is born in the late eighteenth century in Fanteland on Africa's Gold Coast, on the night of a devastating fire near her father's compound. Her adoptive mother, Baaba, immediately resents her, because Effia is the daughter of her father...
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Summary of Yann Martel's The High Mountains of Portugal is a novel comprised of three subtly but intricately linked novellas, each set in a different time period but culminating with a revelation of their interconnection. The protagonist of each novella is a man grieving the loss of his spouse:
In 1904, Tomás Lobo, a young man who has lost his father, lover, and son in the span of one week, sets out on a journey from Lisbon to northeast Portugal...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta's Nightmare Scenario
The Coronavirus demonstrated to the world how a single disease could bring one of the most powerful countries in the world, America, to its knees.
Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta's Nightmare Scenario (2021) investigates the complete dysfunction that was the US response effort, led by the Trump administration team. From the beginning, it was clear the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Yeonmi Park's In Order to Live
In Order to Live (2015) by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers is a story of escape, freedom, and learning to be compassionate with yourself. In her memoir, Yeonmi tells how she and her family tried to escape the dictatorship of North Korea. They fled to China in 2007, then to South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014.
Yeonmi tells the story of her childhood,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus
In Homo Deus (2015), Yuval Noah Harari examines new and futuristic approaches to human evolution and explores what might occur once old myths combine with superhuman technologies. He also discusses the threats that liberalism will encounter in the near future and suggests a greater cosmic plan, giving a brief glimpse of what the future might look like in the light of technology....
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Summary of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens is a multifaceted review and analysis of the current understanding of human evolution and the forces behind major historical developments, beginning with the Neanderthals and other Homo species to Homo sapiens, leading up to the present day, and projecting what might happen in the future…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale
Do you keep getting ever so close to making a sale, before the prospect declines? If so, it might benefit you to learn a secret or two about the sales profession.
In Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale (1985, reissued 2004), you will learn several crucial tricks that will help you get to that close. Did you know that one of the main reasons salespeople don't get...
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