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Book Preview: #1 Charles Darwin was a brilliant scientist who changed the way we view biology. However, he died considering his career a disappointment. He knew that by all worldly rights, he had everything to make him happy and content, but he was unable to cheer up.
#2 The most obvious sign of decline is seen in athletes, who typically peak in performance between the ages of twenty...
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Book Preview: #1 If Ted had gone to a therapist in the early twentieth century, he would have been treated with psychoanalysis, a therapy developed by Sigmund Freud and his followers. Psychoanalysis is based on a Freudian understanding of the mind, which includes the belief that early life experiences are powerful determinants of personality.
#2 The science of animal learning and...
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Book Preview: #1 I am texting you this because I like you. I want to seem like I don't care, but I do. I am texting you this because I have a bad day, and I want to forget about it for a while when your name flashes across my screen.
#2 I'm texting you this because I want to see you again. I like you, and I hope that you like me too. I'm texting you this because I want to.
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Get the Summary of Carolyn Elliott's Existential Kink in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Existential Kink" by Carolyn Elliott introduces a transformative practice that involves embracing and finding pleasure in the shadowy, unconscious parts of our psyche. Elliott argues that many harmful life patterns stem from repressed desires and a sense of wrongness about ourselves. By acknowledging and relishing in these...
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Book Preview: #1 We rely far more on what is being said than how it is being said. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors' lives depended on this ability, and today we rely on it solely before spoken language evolved.
#2 Somatic IFS therapists focus on the body in order to better understand and communicate with their clients. They develop the practices of Somatic Awareness, Conscious Breathing,...
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#1 I had engineered my life so the world came to my house, a comfortable hangout place for my family and friends. I had the ability to do almost all the business side of my collection there. I was just never going to be the cupcake mom or the arts-and-crafts helper at school.
#2 I was blindsided by the news that my father was getting a divorce. I had given my father...
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Book Preview: #1 The tree of life is a natural symbol for mothering. With its fruits and flowers, with birds and animals in and around it, it provides both shelter and supply. It is like a fountain of abundance.
#2 We are made of our mothers, and we are shaped by them. The way we see ourselves and our sense of self-esteem are heavily influenced by our mother. She is not the only influence...
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#1 People become frustratingly complicated when they doubt the legitimacy of their desires, which is often the case when they are afraid of how an audience might respond if their true intentions were to be known.
#2 We can untangle ourselves from our evasiveness and inadvertent slyness by noticing and growing curious about the origins of our behavior. We can recognize...
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#1 We are in an unprecedented global crisis when it comes to mental health. An estimated one out of every nine people, or eight hundred million people, suffer from a mental health disorder, the most common of which is anxiety.
#2 Anxiety has been recognized as far back as 45 BC, when the Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote in the Tusculan Disputations, as...
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Get the Summary of C. G. Jung's The Red Book in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Red Book" by C.G. Jung is a personal account of the author's deep psychological explorations. Jung shares his inner experiences, including visions and dialogues with various aspects of his psyche, such as his soul, a serpent, and figures like Philemon and Elijah. He confronts his shadow, the nature of evil, and the process of individuation....
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Get the Summary of Jennifer Breheny Wallace's Never Enough in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Never Enough, award-winning reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture, and finds out what we must do to fight back. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and an original survey of nearly 6,000 parents, she exposes how the pressure...
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Book Preview: #1 DNA had a lackluster start in the scientific world. It was only discovered in 1944, by Dr. Oswald Avery, who was a nearly retired Canadian bacteriologist with a wide forehead and a narrow chin. He was a drably dressed creature of habit.
#2 Avery's experiment proved that DNA was the long-sought-after molecule that conferred hereditary traits. With only four nucleotides...
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Get the Summary of Johann Hari's “Stolen Focus” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only 65 seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts...
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Book Preview: #1 Your brain is focused on survival, and it is not easy being a survivor. You have inherited a brain that is focused on survival, and it is not easy being a survivor.
#2 The four happy chemicals are dopamine, endorphin, oxytocin, and serotonin. They are triggered when your brain sees something that is good for your survival, and they turn off when something bad crosses...
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Book Preview: #1 Betty was 34 years old, but she looked much older because she was thin and drawn. She had developed a fear of muggers, rapists, and air pollution. She was too afraid of talking about psychological matters to improve.
#2 The Map of Consciousness is a reference guide to the spectrum of consciousness, charting the calibrated levels of energy. It ranges from 1 to 1,000,...
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Book Preview: #1 At the dance studio, Jim was a regular. Every Sunday evening, Tomas held a group lesson that morphed into a social dance. That evening, he asked everyone to clear the floor except Mayumi, who had a surprise performance for them all.
#2 Jim's mother, Maeve, was a fear of being judged by the neighbors. She was always scrutinizing her sons, making sure they were clean...
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#1 The biggest flaw of investing time in self-esteem and self-confidence is that they do not provide a means to reorient your life toward justice and compassion. Self-esteem and self-confidence are not scalable, and they are ultimately doomed to fail if they are fueled by ego and external factors.
#2 Self-acceptance is often used as a synonym for acquiescence. We accept...
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Get the Summary of Batya Ungar-Sargon's Bad News in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just...
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Get the Summary of Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Scattered Minds" by Gabor Maté offers an in-depth look at Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), drawing from his personal and professional experiences. Maté identifies ADD symptoms such as restlessness, impulsivity, and distractibility, which lead to disorganization and emotional turmoil. He challenges the genetic determinism of...
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#1 If you want to be fast after 50, you must be prepared to consider many matters. You must be an athlete all your life, and competition is a big part of who you are. If you have determination, you can do it.
#2 The choices you make every day are important for your health. They are not just about training, but also about lifestyle decisions, big or small. All are important.
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