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Listen now to get the insights from Stephen A. Schwarzman What it Takes. Sample Insights: 1) Stephen Schwarzman was born in 1947. His parents owned a curtains and linens shop in Philadelphia. Schwarzman asked his father to expand the business when he was young. His father refused because he didn't want to take risks. 2) Being a manager and a leader is different than being an entrepreneur.
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Listen now to get the insights from Gary Zukav's The Seat of the Soul. Sample Insights:
1) The evolution taught in educational institutions is evolution in its physical form. A creature is hence more evolved if it is more complex than others. Thus, evolution is often used to refer to the gradual development of organizational complexity.
2) A definition of evolution remains unsatisfactory if it does not include, at its very basis, an understanding...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me
Owen Michaels, father and husband, mysteriously disappears in Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me (2021). His wife, Hannah, finds only a note asking her to protect his teenage daughter Bailey, whom he leaves $600,000 in cash before vanishing without a trace. Now Hannah must try to find her husband while managing to comfort her stubborn new stepdaughter, who lost her...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis
In The Comfort Crisis (2021), Michal Easter explains why it's so important to shut down the outside world and reconnect with nature, for all the benefits it provides for our relationships and our physical and mental health.
The world we live in today is embedded in comfort, routine, and fake pleasures. It tries to shift our priorities and alter them, by keeping us focused...
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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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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Gregg Olsen's If You Tell
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1) Shelly's father, Les Watson, had three children with his first wife, Sharon. After Les remarried in 1960, two of them, Shelly and Chuck, were dropped off for his new wife, Lara, to care for. Paul, the third one, was picked up after Sharon was murdered in 1967 at a motel.
2) They lived in Battle Ground, Washington. Lara began noticing that the kids were odd....
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Summary of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic self-help book. It instructs readers on ways to improve their standing with others and convince others to do things using strategic courtesy, conversational techniques, and proven methods of motivation.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Gin Stephens's Fast. Feast. Repeat.
If you want to lose weight, ditch all of the temporary diets. There is a lifestyle choice you can make that will not only help you lose weight, but will benefit your health and livelihood for years to come.
As Gin Stephens explains in Fast. Feast. Repeat. (2020), the answer is intermittent fasting. The key to intermittent fasting is lowering your insulin levels. By doing so,...
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Buy now to get the insights from Laura Lynne Jackson's Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe.
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1) Your Teams of Light are on the Other Side, always working to get you towards your happiness. Teams of Light can be thought of as God energy, spirit guides, or guardian angels, and sometimes they are people we knew in previous lives or who died in our current lifetime.
2) Your Teams of Light always send you signs and you are...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Tom O'Neill's CHAOS
As time goes by, information that was once seen as fact may become irrelevant. The 1969 murders by the Manson Family is a case in point. Journalist Tom O'Neill revisits the murders in CHAOS (2019), reassessing a perplexing case involving not only Hollywood celebrities and cult leader Charles Manson but also the shocking role of the CIA in hiding the truth.
O'Neill finds holes within the narrative...
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Summary of David Brooks's The Road to Character examines how cultural and personal morals have altered over the last century, creating a world where virtues that were once considered poor character are now revered. However, despite this change in values, it is still possible to build a character that can rise above a focus on material possessions or personal successes…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Robert W. Sears's The Vaccine Book
As a parent, your most important duty is to make the correct decisions to ensure your child's safety. The Vaccine Book (2011) is a medical guide written by pediatrician Robert W. Sears, who's known as Dr. Bob. His goal is to provide all the information any parent needs in order to make the right vaccination choices for their child. With more people questioning the safety of...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died
Many of us who watched kiddie TV dreamed of having the lives of our favorite child stars. However, in her autobiography I'm Glad My Mom Died (2022), Jennette McCurdy shows us that childhood stardom can be far from a dream – and is closer to a nightmare. She presents a collection of vignettes from moments in her life when she felt she was abused by stardom, by weight...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks (2021) is a self-help book about using our time effectively, but not in the conventional sense. British journalist and author Oliver Burkeman argues that time management as we know it has failed horribly and we need to stop pretending otherwise.
The average human life expectancy is outrageously short. If you live to be eighty, you'll have lived for about...
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Insights from Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile. Sample Insights:
1) In 1940, Adolf Hitler's armies had invaded much of Europe, which led to a rebellion in the British House of Commons against the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain.
2) The rebels believed Chamberlain was not up to the task of leading his country during World War II. Chamberlain later resigned and Winston Churchill, the first lord of the Admiralty, took...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance
Learn about the woman who changed espionage forever in Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance (2019). Virginia Hall was a real-life hero whose resilience was exceptional. Even though she was a human with flaws, fears, and insecurities, she used these so-called weaknesses to better understand her enemies. Purnell reveals how one woman helped turn the tides of history,...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Uma Naidoo's This Is Your Brain on Food.
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1) Psychiatry and nutrition are connected, yet not many psychiatrists send patients home with the knowledge that the food they consume may be a link to what brought them to seek therapy in the first place.
2) People seldom think of the influence food has on our brains, yet it is the key to understanding mental health disorders and bad health outcomes....
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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 public health officer of Santa Barbara County.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs
In Bullshit Jobs (2018), David Graeber expands on an essay he wrote in 2013 titled "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs," which was published in Strike! Graeber was surprised to receive numerous emails and messages from people who read the essay and were enlightened about the jobs they occupied. Graeber outlines the attributes of bullshit jobs, tackles the reasons for their proliferation,...