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#1 A single moment in time can change a person's life. I believe this firmly, just as I believe that it's the small and simple moments that compound over time to write our life story. Some of these moments may feel trivial, but together they are always driving us to our next destination.
#2 The CEO of the sports-related store told his audience that 70 percent of their...
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#1 I was fucked. But something happened that made me rethink my life choices. I'm not sure if it was divine intervention, but three weeks after the $10,000-a-month loss, I got a call from a woman who wanted to invest in my business. This would have been a perfect opportunity to rebuild the business's capital base and save the day, but that woman wasn't interested in investing...
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#1 Change causes fear, and fear causes panic. You can either resist change and do nothing, or you can make a rash decision and hope it solves everything. Neither option tends to work out well.
#2 If a panic happens, do something. Don't do nothing. Change causes fear, and fear causes panic. You can either resist change and do nothing, or you can make a rash decision and...
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Book Preview: #1 Some people may be better at listening to their bodies and getting good judgments than others. The best financial traders are not necessarily the most intelligent, but rather those who are the most sensitive to interoceptive signals.
#2 Interoception is the awareness of the inner state of the body. It is generated in places all over the body, and then travels via...
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Get the Summary of Brian Christian's “The Alignment Problem” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances. When the systems...
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#1 The Mandela Effect is a collective delusion in which large swaths of the populace misremember a catalog of indiscriminate memories. The most unhinged explanation involves quantum mechanics and the possibility of alternative realities.
#2 The soft differences between life in the 2020s and life in the 1990s are difficult to explain to people who did not experience both...
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#1 After death, our soul rises up out of its host body. If the soul is older and has experience from many past lives, it knows immediately that it has been set free and is going home. The energy of the soul is able to divide into identical parts, similar to a hologram.
#2 Orientation periods with our guides, which take place before joining our cluster group, vary between souls and...
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Get the Summary of Jon Gordon's The Power of a Positive Team in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great by Jon Gordon: Conversation Starters Positivity coach Jon Gordon talks to many of the most outstanding teams in history and reveals how good teamwork happens and how this is related to the team's success....
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#1 I had my left knee replaced when I was 62 years old. The surgeon said there was a 1 to 2 percent risk of infection, but I later learned that the pain from the surgery was beyond the reach of oxycodone. I became desperate for relief, and tried everything from acupuncture to electro-acupuncture to cold laser.
#2 The book Arthrofibrosis, which my wife found, explained...
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Get the Summary of KC Davis's How to Keep House While Drowning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. KC Davis's "How to Keep House While Drowning" reframes care tasks like cleaning, not as moral imperatives but as neutral activities that should not define personal worth. Davis critiques the self-help industry for its reliance on unsustainable willpower and ignorance of individual circumstances. She shares her own struggles...
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Get the Summary of Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Good Strategy Bad Strategy" by Richard Rumelt dissects the essence of true strategic thinking versus the pitfalls of bad strategy. The book illustrates effective strategy through historical and corporate examples, emphasizing the importance of a unified approach that aligns actions with clear objectives. Apple's resurgence...
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Get the Summary of Jared Kushner's Breaking History in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Now, Kushner finally tells his story-a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political ambitions found himself pulled into a presidency that no one saw coming.
Breaking History takes readers inside debates in the Oval Office, double-crosses at the United...
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Get the Summary of Katherine Eban's Bottle of Lies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Katherine Eban's Bottle of Lies exposes the deceit behind generic-drug manufacturing- and the attendant risks for global health. Drawing on exclusive accounts from whistleblowers and regulators, as well as thousands of pages of confidential FDA documents, Eban reveals an industry where fraud is rampant,...
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Get the Summary of Miranda Devine's “Laptop from Hell” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign.
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#1 I was born in Japan between two worlds. I was Korean on my father's side and Japanese on my mother's side. I was raised in a poor Korean family in Mizonokuchi, a neighborhood south of Tokyo. I dreamed of becoming the prime minister of Japan.
#2 My mother, Miyoko, was a woman of strong character. She had an oval face that was beautiful in its way. My father, on the...
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Get the Summary of Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero...
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#1 You should start downsizing because it will help you get rid of the excess stuff in your life that you don't need. Instead of buying new stuff you don't need, you'll let go of existing stuff you don't need.
#2 The typical American household contains objects that had their moment long ago, but don't fit in today. For example, fragile china sets and heavy, ornate picture...
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Book Preview: #1 In 1846, Sarah Barrows was about to leave her home in Illinois for California. She was in love with a young man who played the violin, and she was about to get married to him. But her mother and father and siblings were about to leave for California, and she would never see them again.
#2 When Sarah broke off the engagement and chose to follow her family, she had...
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Get the Summary of Renee Engeln's “Beauty Sick” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle...
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Get the Summary of Rabbi Daniel Lapin's Thou Shall Prosper in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A practical approach to creating wealth-based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom-made accessible to people of all backgrounds
The ups and downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous principle that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon the things...