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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 Ron Friedman's Decoding Greatness
We've been told for generations that there are two ways to succeed: talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness (2021), award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman reveals a powerful third path-reverse engineering-that has discreetly launched legends in a variety of industries, from artists, writers, and chefs to athletes, inventors, and entrepreneurs.
Friedman reveals the...
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Summary of Gary John Bishop's Unfu*k Yourself is a no-nonsense guide to breaking through destructive thought patterns that block potential and degrade well being.
When struggling with failure or stagnation, it is often difficult for individuals to determine how to extricate themselves from such situations…
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Summary of Cal Newport's Deep Work describes a method of engaging with one's professional efforts in a full and immersive manner to produce better results. This type of focused effort does not require longer hours. Instead, a seasoned practitioner can accomplish more in a shorter time frame. Furthermore, the product of this working style will be of a higher quality than what others produce when they attempt to work while succumbing to the noise of...
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Summary of Gretchen Rubin's Better Than Before is a successful self-help book writer, lifestyle blogger and bestselling author. In her latest book, Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, she unveils methods and approaches to maintain habits that can improve people's lives.
Rubin roots the book in personal experiences with her own family and friends while using relevant data and studies to streamline her ideas. She also references...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Andrew Kap's The Last Law of Attraction Book You'll Ever Need To Read.
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1) The Law of Attraction is a philosophy whose premise is that our life is shaped by our thoughts: positive thoughts bring positive experiences, and negative thoughts bring negative experiences.
2) The basis of the Law of Attraction is that you have to believe that something is possible for it to be possible. If you want...
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Summary of Charles Duhigg's Smarter Faster Better is a scientifically grounded self-help book that describes ways to increase productivity. Duhigg relates stories about ways to encourage individuals to make decisions and assign their own significant meanings to them, demonstrating that making choices and knowing the meaning of those choices stimulates further action and motivation. Analyses of team productivity programs and the functioning of effective...
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Summary of Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves's Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a self-help style book about identifying the reader's strengths and weaknesses in various areas of emotional intelligence and providing tools for improving emotional intelligence skills. It is an expansion on the 2004 book The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book and is based on the authors' online Emotional Intelligence Appraisal…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael J. Gelb's How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Our understanding of the complexity of human intelligence and the wide abilities of the human brain is growing, which proves that we are naturally a lot more gifted than we might think.
In How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci (1998), Michael J. Gelb studies master painter and scientist Leonardo da Vinci. Gelb analyzes da Vinci-based methods for sharpening...
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Summary of Greg Mckeown's Essentialism outlines a minimalist approach to tasks and obligations by focusing on truly important goals and learning to turn down opportunities that do not directly contribute to meeting those goals. The modern fixation with multitasking and having it all has paradoxically resulted in accomplished, motivated people doing many relatively unimportant things poorly while neglecting their true goals because they are afraid...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Oprah Winfrey's What Happened to You.
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1) Every person is born in their own unique set of social, economic, and cultural circumstances. We come into the world feeling whole, but life eventually begins to take its toll. Traumatic events, abuse, or neglect can cause children to ache and follow a pattern of frustration, self-sabotage, violence, and addiction.
2) The brain is like a four-layer...
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Summary of Marshall Goldsmith's Triggers, written by executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, with Mark Reiter, his agent and writing partner, is a nonfiction self-help book designed for people who need motivation, understanding, and concrete, practical tools to effect lasting behavioral changes. Triggers are stimuli that prompt a behavioral reaction; they can be beliefs, behaviors, or environments. Identifying triggers is useful in all interpersonal relationships,...
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Summary of Brian Grazer's A Curious Mind is an examination of the impact of curiosity on Grazer's life and movie production career. In a memoir style, he describes how his curiosity gave him the opportunity to leave law school for a law clerk position with Warner Bros. He used his position to meet with famous people and encourage them to speak to him on a variety of topics, meetings he would later refer to as "curiosity conversations". He later embarked...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brian Tracy's Eat That Frog!
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1) Treat your tasks as you would treat the action of eating a frog. Start with the biggest one and do it quickly. When you start by doing the hardest and ugliest task, the rest feels like no biggie.
2) You need to act immediately and eat the frog. Staring at it won't make eating it easier. Similarly, with any big and unpleasant task, you must put the pedal to...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Charlie Harary's Unlocking Greatness
Today, so many of us have abundant wealth, technology, and knowledge, yet we are still unsatisfied. In Unlocking Greatness (2018), Charlie Harary, with the help of Mark Dagostino, explains how we already have everything it takes to be happy; we just don't know what to do with it. Most people only need someone to show them how to take advantage of all the resources life provides...
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