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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 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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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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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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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Russel Brunson's Expert Secrets
Expert Secrets (2017) is Russell Brunson's follow-up to his bestseller DotCom Secrets (2015). This time around, Brunson focuses on how to start and grow a large-scale movement. There are two key steps: becoming an expert and then creating a message that has the potential to impact someone else's life. Brunson, a marketer and entrepreneur, includes plenty of anecdotes and examples...
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Summary of Eli Sanders's While the City Slept is a journalistic work portraying the series of events that led up to a sexual assault and homicide in an outlying neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The victims were Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who lived in a peripheral neighborhood called South Park. Isaiah Kalebu was convicted for the murder.
Teresa grew up in a family of ten other siblings in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents were very religious....
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Summary of Joel Fuhrman's Super Immunity explains how to use nutrition to prevent disease and increase longevity. In Fuhrman's view, when people adopt a diet high in micronutrients, they fuel their cells with nutrition needed to allow their immune systems to function at optimal levels...
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Summary of Carol Dweck's Mindset uncovers the differences between two core mindsets, the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. Through analysis of research and real-life accounts, Dweck examines the two mindsets and discusses why one, the growth mindset, tends to lead to a more successful and fulfilling life.
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Summary of Dan Harris's 10% Happier chronicles author and television news reporter Dan Harris' life as he discovers mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhist theories for happiness and wellness.
A war reporter in the trenches for the American Broadcasting Company News (ABC News), Harris began to struggle with depression while at home between assignments. To battle the symptoms of depression, he began using drugs. Harris had a panic attack while on the...
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Summary of Susan Peirce Thompson's Bright Line Eating offers a weight-loss and maintenance strategy that relies on strict dietary eliminations instead of eating in moderation. By changing their habits, dieters can lose weight and be released from the powerful grip of foods loaded with sugar and flour.
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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,...
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The lives of two teens, a French girl and a German boy, improbably intersect at the end of World War II in All The Light We Cannot See.
Before the war, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, who has been blind since childhood, lives comfortably in Paris with her father, Daniel, who is the key master for the natural history museum…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sharri Markson's What Really Happened in Wuhan
In What Really Happened in Wuhan (2021), Australian journalist Sharri Markson provides evidence for the potential cause of Covid-19, with an investigation of government cover-ups and the peculiar activities within the Wuhan Institute of Virology throughout the months leading up to the start of the pandemic.
The causes of COVID-19 are still rooted in mystery. Some...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma
Drug companies have a long history of misleading doctors and harming patients. In Bad Pharma (2012), British physician Ben Goldacre exposes the deep-rooted corruption at the heart of the pharmaceutical industry. He explains how companies are financially driven to market their poorly researched drugs, how scientists are driven by ego to modify trials, and how regulators do nothing to...
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Summary of Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko's The Millionaire Next Door is a book about US millionaires, including a discussion on how they got to be millionaires. The key finding that surprised the authors is that the majority of millionaires do not stand out. They live in modest homes in average neighborhoods, run blue-collar businesses, and do not spend money on flashy cars, watches, or jewelry. In fact, most of their neighbors have no idea...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Prem Rawat's Hear Yourself
In Hear Yourself (2021), spiritual leader Prem Rawat details how to discover and nourish inner peace while shutting out the noise of the outside world. The modern world has been taken over by distractions and worries that stand in the way of achieving internal peace and hearing the sound of our inner life. By letting go of expectations, practicing gratitude and forgiveness, and choosing...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Tochi Onyebuchi's Riot Baby
Sometimes, the world tends to forget that America's entire Black population has suffered from a history of persecution, inequalities, and racism. Black people have had to survive through extreme danger and unjustified arrests for the sole crime of being Black.
In the novella Riot Baby (2020), Tochi Onyebuchi tackles the subject of racism in America in a creative and untraditional...
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Summary of Maria Shriver's I've Been Thinking by award-winning journalist and producer Maria Shriver is a collection of uplifting vignettes and observations on faith, happiness, motherhood, and family. They are offered as prompts for introspection, particularly about finding meaning and purpose in life during turbulent times…