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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 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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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 Dr. Christiane Northrup's Goddesses Never Age is a self-help book directed at older women to whom she offers extensive advice on how to live an ageless life unbound by the cultural stereotypes of aging. The book offers insights as to what a woman can experience when she defies what others think her life should be because she has reached a certain age. The author calls this agelessness. Readers learn how to challenge what they see in the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Cal Newport's How to Become a Straight-A Student
There are many guides out there for college students that completely misrepresent what modern college life is like, or fail to provide them with the tools they need to succeed.
Cal Newport's How to Become a Straight-A Student (2006) sets the record straight on how to enjoy your college experience while also getting the grades you want. One of the main keys to Newport's...
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Summary of Brene Brown's Daring Greatly, a book by researcher Brene Brown, deals with vulnerability. But its key tenet is one that will surprise many people. That tenet is the idea that being vulnerable is not a negative aspect of a person's life, but a positive one. Only by being vulnerable, by risking hurt or failure, can people open themselves to all the possibilities in life. Those are the opportunities that can make people happier, enable them...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Nicole LePera's How to Do the Work.
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1) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a standardized approach based on the theory that our thoughts affect and cause our emotions and behaviors. CBT works to identify the thought processes that cause troubled behaviors. However, Dr. Nicole LePera found that her patients were more complex than CBT could account for.
2) Holistic psychology looks at all...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jonathan Fields's Sparked
In Sparked (2021), Jonathan Fields immerses readers in the universe of Sparketypes, an entirely new concept of impulses that make you feel alive at work and in life in general, so that you learn to avoid what drains you. There are ten Sparketypes and each person can find at least one of them in their personality traits. Sparked will provide you with an in-depth look at what sparks you,...
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Summary of Gabrielle Bernstein's The Universe Has Your Back is a non-fiction book designed to help readers recognize that their innate nature is one of love, not fear. Everybody occasionally confronts obstacles to experiencing the transcendent force of love, whether they call this force the Universe, God, spirit, or consciousness...
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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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Summary of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic is a book of motivational passages, anecdotes, and quotes meant to inspire readers to embrace creativity in whatever form is most natural for them. By exploring creativity through real life experiences and words of encouragement, readers learn to face what holds them back from embracing inspiration and activating their creative nature, also known as finding Big Magic…
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Summary of Allan Pease and Barbara Pease's The Definitive Book of Body Language is a comprehensive guide to non-verbal communication. An expanded version of Allen Pease's Body Language (1981), The Definitive Book of Body Language outlines the basics of body language, including expressions, gestures, and physical movements, and offers supporting scientific data to explain what body language telegraphs in everyday exchanges...
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Summary of Michael A. Singer's The Surrender Experiment is a spiritual memoir that chronicles Singer's quest to embrace whatever the universe presented to him at any given moment. Singer's experiment with surrender began in 1970, when he was enrolled in a graduate-level economics program at the University of Florida and realized that there was a voice inside his head, often critical and judgmental...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mel Robbins's The High 5 Habit
You're already high fiving everyone else in your life. Now is the time to high five yourself.
After all, you are the person you're going to spend your life with, before any family member or even soulmate. Therefore, you need to put yourself first and build a strong relationship with yourself. Mel Robbins teaches you how to do exactly that in The High 5 Habit (2021).
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Ed Mylett's The Power of One More
Everyone is born with the ability to do something great with their life. Most times, people are one step away from reaching their goals; all it takes is one more. In The Power of One More (2022), Ed Mylett explains that through focused thoughts and actions, it is possible to unlock and maximize your abilities, as well as reach the goals you have always dreamed of achieving....
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Summary of Karyl McBride's Will I Ever Be Good Enough?, Karyl McBride uses her extensive experience as a family therapist to offer a guide to recovery for adult daughters of narcissistic mothers. The program is designed to help these women overcome a vicious cycle of dysfunctional parenting patterns, banish the haunting emptiness that results from feeling unlovable, and quell anxiety resulting from feeling they were never good enough for their mothers…...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants
This Is Your Mind on Plants (2021) is a personal inquiry into three types of molecules and the extraordinary plants that produce them: the morphine in the opium poppy, the caffeine in coffee and tea, and the mescaline produced by the peyote and San Pedro cacti. American author Michael Pollan explains that we humans strive to vary, intensify, and sometimes transcend...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Leah Guy's Overcoming Toxic Emotions
Leah Guy's Overcoming Toxic Emotions (2021) teaches you how to create positive change, live happier, and have better relationships with yourself and others for years to come through your own resources, determination, and spirit. Change is constant, regardless of our past, and making the choice to acknowledge change brings opportunities along with the unknown. Guy provides...
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