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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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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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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 Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ
If you think it takes money to make money, you're wrong. What it takes is a high financial IQ. Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ (2008) defines financial intelligence, explains its five different forms, and dives deep into each. Kiyosaki exposes misconceptions about finance and provides valuable knowledge that can jumpstart your...
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Sebastian Junger's Tribe is a scientific and journalistic consideration of the correlation between societies with egalitarian tribal structures and low rates of mental illness, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers returning home.
The sense of tribal belonging was documented in the eighteenth century among settlers in North America, who often joined Native American tribes even after those tribes held them as prisoners or waged...
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Summary of Henry Cloud's The Power of the Other is a self-help book that demonstrates the ways that people influence each other. It describes how to cultivate healthy relationships in order to get the most benefit from interpersonal relationships.
Individuals can improve themselves beyond certain limits only if they have emotional connections with and receive feedback from others. Healthy relationships improve physical and mental development, as well...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jacob Goldstein's Money
What is money? This question is often asked and can take on an existential dimension. In Money (2020), Jacob Goldstein offers a thorough account of the birth, evolution, and use of money across the ages, from Ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, from copper coins to digital currencies. Money is essentially a made-up aspect of humanity that has very real and tangible effects. It...
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Summary of Nick Hornby's Funny Girl is a novel by writer Nick Hornby set in Blackpool, England in 1964. It tells the story of twenty-one year old Barbara Parker, a beautiful blonde, who wants to become a comedic actress like Lucille Ball.
Barbara wins the Miss Blackpool beauty pageant. Barbara wants more than anything to get out of Blackpool. When she realizes the title of Miss Blackpool commits her to a year of hospital visits and charity events,...
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Summary of Michael Bennett & Sarah Bennett's F*ck Feelings is a self-help book with a pragmatic outlook on the types of change that individuals can expect in their lives given a specific set of circumstances. Most advice runs counter to the big promises made by other self-help books, stating instead that there are some things that readers will be able to change, some things they want to change but cannot, and unintended consequences to even the most...
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Summary of David E. Hoffman's The Billion Dollar Spy chronicles the six year relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and engineer, Adolf Tolkachev, who spied on the Soviet Union for the United States. Tolkachev was the most productive CIA spies during the Cold War, persistent in his undertakings to ensure the undoing of the Soviet Union's aviation developments, which he personally had a hand in. He was allegedly betrayed by a disgruntled...
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Summary of Henry Cloud's Boundaries examines how conservative evangelical Christians should set and maintain proper boundaries, that is saying yes and no at the appropriate times, by examining how boundaries are presented in the Bible. Those who cannot say no live lives filled with unhappiness because people take advantage of them. The symptoms of unhappiness include feeling unappreciated, disrespected, stressed, and exhausted from doing too much...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from A.J. Baime's The Arsenal of Democracy
A.J. Baime's The Arsenal of Democracy (2014) is partly a history book about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led his nation through the Great Depression only to face the threat of a looming war. It's also a chronicle of the golden years of Detroit, which formed the center of American vehicle and war material production during World War II. Most importantly, though,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Tom Clavin's Lightning Down
A lot has been written about World War II: the triumphs, the tribulations, and the horrors. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down (2021) includes all three, as he covers the incredible story of Joseph "Joe" Moser, an American pilot who survived his stay at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Buchenwald is one of the most infamous German concentration camps, not for its sheer size, but the absolutely...
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As society has experienced the recent deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner through media coverage, it has begun a dialogue regarding the treatment of young men of color and the attitude of law enforcement and lawmakers in regards to the safety and security of the urban black population. Between the World and Me is a letter Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his teenage son, one that describes the tragedy and truth of the black experience...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Nedra Glover Tawwab's Set Boundaries, Find Peace.
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1) Therapy patients disguise their boundary issues with problems of self-care, relationship conflicts, or time management. Uncovering boundary violations will help set a person free, and the first step is knowing when you need to set boundaries.
2) You cannot help others by fixing them yourself, as you will get in the way of their self-improvement...
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Summary of Bob Woodward's The Last of the President's Men is a nonfiction work about Alexander Butterfield, an aide in the White House during President Richard Nixon's first administration, written by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Bob Woodward. This is the fifth book Woodward has written about the Watergate scandal.
In 1968, Colonel Alexander Butterfield was an officer in the US Air Force stationed in Australia. Previously he served in Vietnam where...