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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 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 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 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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The unusual family of French Impressionist master Jacob Abraham Camille Pizzarro takes center stage in The Marriage of Opposites. Summary of Alice Hoffman's The Marriage of Opposites is set in the early to late 1800s, focusing on the artist and his equally strong-willed mother, Rachel Monsanto Pomié Petit Pizzarro.
Rachel longs for Paris although her grandparents long ago fled France for St. Thomas, an island in what is now the US Virgin Islands,...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Michele Borba's Thrivers.
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1) Italian pedagogue Loris Malaguzzi founded the Reggio Emilia approach, which was inspired by the collaborative effort among children who helped rebuild that city after World War II. Malaguzzi developed a primary education curriculum that focuses first on growing children's talents and unique strengths before teaching them academic subjects.
2) The Reggio Emilia...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Jessica Bruder's Nomadland.
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1) Itinerants, drifters, hobos, and restless souls have always existed. However, a new type of wandering tribe is emerging in the second millennium.
2) People who never imagined themselves as nomads are on the move. They're abandoning traditional homes and apartments in favor of "wheel estate," which includes vans, used RVs, school buses, pickup campers, and travel...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jeff Bezos's Invent and Wander
By staying patient and keeping his eye on the distant horizon, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has focused on his company's long-term goals and kept going despite many failures and losses. Invent and Wander (2020) is a compilation of his writings, speeches, and annual shareholder letters. Together, they give readers an insight into his life and background, and the long path he's taken...
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Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point applies the logic of biological contagion to a wide range of social phenomena, such as crime waves, that function similarly to epidemics. The moment when a small-scale pattern gains exponential momentum and transforms into a widespread phenomenon is known in sociology as its Tipping Point…
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Summary of Jon Meacham's Destiny and Power is a biography of George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, who served from 1988 to 1992. The author argues that as president and as a politician, Bush used prudence and compromise to an extent that would seem out of place in today's era of highly partisan US politics.
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Summary of Geoffrey Parker's Platform Revolution is a comprehensive look at the emergence of platforms as market dominators, their competition against pipeline businesses, and best practices in founding and managing platforms.
Platforms connect two types of users in order to exchange something of value. This is different than the traditional pipeline model of business where something of value is created by transferring it from producer to producer...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Julia Galef's The Scout Mindset.
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1) Directionally motivated reasoning, also known as motivated reasoning, is an aspect of human psychology where our unconscious motives direct us to certain conclusions. It is not objective, and instead involves us framing information to fit whatever conclusions we have already made.
2) One common example of motivated reasoning is how we use news stories...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild
Chris McCandless is a name that resonates with those looking to find the answers to everyday life in the boundless beauty and mystique of nature. And yet, his unfortunate death at age 24 proves that nature can never fully grant you everything you want.
Jon Krakauer looks into the strange yet inspiring existence of McCandless in Into the Wild (1996), from his comfortable, upper middle-class...
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Summary of Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund's Factfulness is a work of nonfiction that systematically debunks common misunderstandings about the world. The sweeping scope of human history is, by and large, a story of incremental progress, but most people fail to see it that way…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mo Rocca's Mobituaries
Mo Rocca immortalizes a selection of people, concepts, and even objects in Mobituaries (2019). Rocca creates the send-off that he believes the subjects deserve, whatever was said about them when they died or faded away, and helps readers fully understand their impact. Some things are meant to be remembered, so Rocca has provided these humorous yet informative retellings.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Thich Nhat Hanh's The Art of Communicating
In The Art of Communicating (2013), Thich Nhat Hanh explores the long path towards mastering self-communication, building a strong community, and confronting deeply engraved wounds. He highlights the importance of mindful awareness and details the fundamentals of a healthy, successful communication that builds personalities as well as societies.
The Art of Communicating...