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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 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 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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Summary of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile introduces and explains hormesis, or the way that some systems benefit from the chaos and stress that normally would destroy fragile things.
Any cohesive system of cooperators or processes composed of smaller participating actors, from the human body to the stock market, can be fragile, robust, or antifragile…
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Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat brings together more than two dozen narratives of patients with many different neurological impairments. The narratives illuminate medical details of the diseases while illustrating how those diseases play out in a patient's thoughts and actions, bringing a more human aspect to the ailments…
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Summary of Daniel G. Amen M.D.'s Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by psychiatrist Daniel D. Amen is a non-fiction book based on the idea that brain functioning can be improved, and such improvement can drastically change lives for the better. Amen's approach to healing the brain is based on more than 100,000 scans he and his colleagues have conducted at the Amen Clinics, a medical facility that adopts an integrated approach to brain health.
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Summary of Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There generalizes from his personal experience as a business consultant to explain how successful leaders can diagnose and correct interpersonal problems that are holding them back at work. Using data-driven analysis and simple behavioral modification techniques, senior executives and other leaders can improve their relationships with employees by adopting an attitude of humility and...
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Summary of Mary Roach's Grunt examines technological and medical research in the military. Each chapter focuses on a different topic-for example, diarrhea among soldiers-and then presents historical background, interviews with scientists and affected military personnel, and possible solutions to the problem.
Military research in both news accounts and films is usually presented as a matter of technology and combat equipment, such as faster airplanes,...
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1) In September 2001, Irish American actress Sharon Stone had a stroke and almost died. Despite a 1 percent chance of survival, Sharon beat the odds.
2) During her close brush with death, Sharon connected to what felt like an eternal source of love, seeing a beautiful white light and hearing the voices of loved ones who had already passed.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Rhonda Byrne's The Greatest Secret.
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1) The greatest secret to living a stress-free and endlessly happy life has always been right in front of us. It has been told countless times in every single religion, and yet very few people know what it is. The secret is that we've mistaken our own identities.
2) We may search for happiness in materialistic things, but like the items themselves, the...
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Summary of Larry Olmsted's Real Food/Fake Food is an investigative overview of the food industry's often intentional efforts to mislead consumers about the origin and identity of the products that they eat. Author Larry Olmsted highlights the most outrageous examples of food frauds perpetrated upon the American people and offers recommendations for ways that consumers can reclaim their grocery bags and fill their dinner plates with foods they can...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jack D. Schwager's Unknown Market Wizards
Unknown Market Wizards (2020) is a continuation of the Market Wizards series that trader Jack D. Schwager started in 1989. This time, instead of talking to famed traders, Schwager set out to see if he could find traders who are little known even though they have a long record of success. To his amazement, he found not one but eleven with great track records. In Unknown...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Karen Frazier's Crystals for Beginners
If you have ever felt drawn towards the colorful works of mother nature that we call crystals, but were so overwhelmed by the large variety that you didn't know where to start, psychic Karen Frazier provides you with an easy introduction to the world of the mesmerizing stones.
In Crystals for Beginners (2017), Frazier offers a guide to 50 crystals, from the most common...
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Summary of Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor is a gritty and compelling narrative that recounts what happened when four
United States Navy's Sea, Air, Land Teams (SEALs) fought against a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. Only one of them survived the ordeal.
Marcus Luttrell and the other members of his Navy SEAL team were sent to the mountains of the Hindu Kush between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were on a reconnaissance mission to locate and kill...
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Summary of Robert O'Neill's The Operator is Robert O'Neill's memoir about his service as a Navy SEAL from 1996 to 2012. O'Neill describes the years of grueling training, high-stakes missions, and dramatic rescues that led up to his team's top-secret raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Laura Coleman's The Puma Years
In The Puma Years (2021), Laura Coleman chronicles how a trip to the Bolivian Amazon with the intention of taking a short vacation turned into a life-changing experience of self-discovery, bonding with wild animals, connecting to nature, and pushing her own boundaries.
Wayra, a foster puma in Sanctuary Ambue Ari, became her life's top priority, teaching her many lessons about herself...
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Summary of Johann Hari's Lost Connections explores the physical, psychological, and cultural factors that lead to depression, as well as the tactics communities can employ to overcome it. British journalist Johann Hari argues that while depression can have a biological cause, it's largely an involuntary reaction to the social ills that plague modern society…