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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Michael Lewis's The Premonition.
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1) In 2011, Dr. Charity Dean, a microbiology major with an interest in pandemic diseases, accepted a job as deputy public health officer for Santa Barbara County. One of her major tasks was to spot and take immediate action when a contagious disease seemed to be threatening the area.
2) By 2014, Charity had become chief
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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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Summary of Eric Goodman's True to Form is a self-help book designed to show people, especially those experiencing muscle and joint pain, how easy it is to return the body to its natural state of health and well being. Dr. Goodman is a chiropractor and personal trainer who experienced debilitating pain and found a surgery-free method for treating it using an extremely simple movement methodology. Foundation Training, his protocol, gives people the...
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Summary of Richard P. Feynman's Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is an unconventional memoir by a decidedly unconventional theoretical physicist. Feynman was a brilliant and eccentric thinker who was present for some of the key scientific developments of the twentieth century.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Brad Stulberg's The Practice of Groundedness
Success frequently comes at a cost. A fixation on outward performance can cause anxiety, restlessness, strained relationships, tiredness, and even substance abuse. Riding the high of a few successes can keep you going for only so long. The always-on, never-enough hustle mentality eventually takes its toll.
In The Practice of Groundedness (2021), Brad Stulberg presents...
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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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Summary of Chip Gaines's Capital Gaines is a collection of life lessons that Gaines gathered from his experiences as a business owner, husband, father, and television personality.
Gaines realized at an early age that he was not a gifted student, but he was still talented in other ways.
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In December of 1991, Steve Eisman was working for Oppenheimer and Co. as an analyst and became known for his knack for ignoring consensus, an analysis of a stock's future sales and earnings.
In the early 1990s, the Salomon Brothers trading floor began a whole new bond market by packaging mortgages into bonds. In this way, they began to tap the unused equity many people had in their homes, driving the interest rates of mortgages so low that even those...
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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 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.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Andy Stanley's Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets.
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1) Life's all about making choices, every day. We all have moments when we aren't sure what to do. Some of us make quick decisions, while others can never have enough information before making a decision. But, in the end, we are where we are as a result of our choices.
2) Your decisions, along with your responses to other people's actions,...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brianna Wiest's 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think.
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1) If you consciously learn to regard the "problems" in your life as opportunities to gain a better understanding and develop a better way of living, you will emerge from the labyrinth of suffering and learn what it means to thrive.
2) When you do something you truly love, you will experience fear and pain, primarily because...
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Summary of Angela Duckworth's Grit, Angela Duckworth discusses her research into the characteristics of successful people. She argues that innate talent is less important to success than the willingness to persevere despite difficulty and initial failure.
People tend to believe that innate ability is the most important determinant of success and achievement. However, IQ tests and other measures of supposedly natural talent are poor predictors of performance....
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Summary of Joseph E. Stiglitz's The Euro is Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz's evisceration of the euro as the cause of political and economic turmoil in Europe today.
From the very start, the decision to create a single currency for Europe was a major mistake founded on faulty ideology and misconceived economic principles. The economic half-truths that guided the construction of the eurozone no longer hold water in 2016 and are outdated.
The...
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Summary of Esther Perel's Mating in Captivity draws on observations made during her decades of experience as a practicing psychotherapist. The book explores the ways sexual passion and long-term security are often at odds and highlights important issues couples face as they navigate committed relationships.