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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 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 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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Summary of Jocko Willink's Discipline Equals Freedom is a collection of tips and strategies for living a disciplined life. Whether one's long-term goals relate to diet, exercise, or work, self-imposed discipline is a tried and true methodology for reaching an objective…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Thibaut Meurisse's Master Your Emotions
If you want to take control of your life, you don't need to wait for the day when a random breakthrough delivers you the insight you need to change. In Master Your Emotions (2018), Thibaut Meurisse provides a practical guide to help you jump straight into the driver's seat of your own life, steering yourself in the direction of inner peace and what you truly desire.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth
Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth (2021) teaches readers how to make money by investing in STRs: short-term and vacation rental properties. Carl shares the strategies that allowed her to make hundreds of thousands of dollars from investing in short-term rentals within five years. She highlights questions that all potential investors should ask and...
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Summary of Robert Greene's The Art of Seduction is a self-help book about manipulating people for personal gain. Seduction is not merely a matter of sex; it can be a way to make sales, gain political power, or generally persuade others in the service of one's own goals...
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Summary of Ann Coulter's Adios, America is a book centered around immigration in the United States, including the impact immigration has had on US history, government policies, and society in general.
Modern policies regarding immigration tends to lean in favor of the immigrant. This possibly comes from the fact that Hispanic immigrants often vote heavily in favor of Democrats, therefore Democrats have established policy that makes it easier for illegal...
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Summary of Dan Ariely's Dollars and Sense introduces readers to the psychology of purchase decisions.
Consumers have difficulty calculating the value of the things they want to buy, particularly because comparisons between different types of costs can be challenging to comprehend.
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Summary of Nadia Hashimi's The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Afghan American novelist Nadia Hashimi tells an intergenerational story of two Afghan women whose lives are different but connected. Rahima, a teenage girl, lives in twenty-first-century Afghanistan. In the wake of Taliban rule, Afghanistan's government is divided and the culture is fractured. Shekiba, Rahima's great-great-grandmother, lives in early twentieth-century Afghanistan, under...
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Summary of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion evaluates popular arguments for the existence of God. The idea that God is not an object that can be accessed and reviewed using human reason is rejected. Instead, evidence that proves with at least 51% certainty is presented to prove that God does, in fact, not exist, casting reasonable doubt on the efficacy and usefulness of belief in God.
Genuine curiosity as disciplined by a sound scientific method...
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Summary of Holly Madison's Down the Rabbit Hole is the memoir of former Hugh Hefner girlfriend and former star of The Girls Next Door, Holly Madison. By 2002, Holly was Hugh Hefner's girlfriend at the Playboy Mansion, but she felt that she had sold her soul for a piece of fame. She was miserable, even borderline suicidal, as she played the role of girlfriend to a demanding tycoon old enough to be her grandfather. Life inside the mansion turned out...
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Summary of James Patterson's Private Vegas deals with serial rapists, car bombings, murderous gold-diggers, a frame-up against his friend, an evil twin, and the disintegration of his love life in the fast-paced days that make up Private Vegas.
On a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, Lori Kimball races home from her boring job, trying to break her personal best time. In a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a Sumarian diplomat, Gozan Remari, and his...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jason L. Riley's Maverick
Throughout history, the world has witnessed discriminations, hostilities, and injustices. It seems that no matter how much human beings evolve, racism will always be manifested in societies, and the fight against it is far deeper and more complicated than what activists, movements, and organizations like to acknowledge.
In Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell (2021), Jason L. Riley...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jane McLelland's How to Starve Cancer
In How to Starve Cancer (2018), Jane McLelland guides readers through her challenging experience with cancer and how she found alternative treatments far less harmful than conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy. By chronicling her personal battle, she aims to assure cancer patients that they can take control of their destiny by following a cancer-suppressing approach...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time
Time is one of life's biggest mysteries. In The Order of Time (2017), physicist Carlo Rovelli dives into both simple and complex aspects of time. It is a concept that has been long studied by philosophers, artists, and scientists alike, and our understanding of it has gone through many phases. He explains the basic laws of physics, Einstein's relativity, quantum theory, and...
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Summary of Tara Westover's Educated is a memoir about how an uneducated young woman raised in the remote mountains of Idaho came to earn a doctorate from Cambridge University. Raised outside of society, in a violent household run by Mormon fundamentalists, Tara never saw herself as a person with choices or prospects...