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Get the Summary of Cal Newport's Slow Productivity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport explores the concept of productivity, particularly in knowledge work, where traditional metrics are ill-suited. The book challenges the 20th-century mindset that equates longer hours with better outcomes, highlighting the pitfalls of pseudo-productivity, which leads to stress and burnout. Newport...
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Get the Summary of Katherine Clarke's Billionaires' Row in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Billionaires' Row, Katherine Clarke reveals the captivating story of how, in just a few years, the ruthless real-estate impresarios behind these "supertalls" lining 57th Street turned what was once a run-down strip of Midtown into the most exclusive street on Earth, as legendary Trump-era veterans...
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Get the Summary of Johann Hari's “Stolen Focus” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only 65 seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts...
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Get the Summary of Bjorn Lomborg's False Alarm in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults...
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Get the Summary of Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but as is found in the best history, the same person might be both. At the center of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson-the legendary...
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#1 Feng shui is a Chinese practice that is about applying common sense and instinct when you plan your spaces or build a home. It is about applying principles that are simple to understand, but that lead to the best possible outcomes for your home.
#2 Feng shui is a practice that focuses on the layout and design of a home. It is based on the physical world — landscape,...
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Book Preview: #1 DNA had a lackluster start in the scientific world. It was only discovered in 1944, by Dr. Oswald Avery, who was a nearly retired Canadian bacteriologist with a wide forehead and a narrow chin. He was a drably dressed creature of habit.
#2 Avery's experiment proved that DNA was the long-sought-after molecule that conferred hereditary traits. With only four nucleotides...
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Get the Summary of Guy Kawasaki's The Art of the Start 2.0 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, small-business owner, intrapreneur, or not-for-profit leader, there's no shortage of advice on topics such as innovating, recruiting, fund raising, and branding. In fact, there are so many books, articles, websites, blogs, webinars, and conferences that...
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Get the Summary of Patrick M. Lencioni's The Motive in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In what may be his edgiest page-turner to date, Lencioni thrusts his readers into a day-long conversation between rival CEOs. Shay Davis is the CEO of Golden Gate Alarm, who, after just a year in his role, is beginning to worry about his job and is desperate to figure out how to turn things around....
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Get the Summary of David Graeber's “Bullshit Jobs” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled "On the...
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#1 We are energy, and our matter, mind, and thoughts are energy. We are multidimensional beings made of pure energy. The degree to which we know this truth about ourselves is the degree to which we live in pain or in bliss.
#2 I was shocked to find out that my father had left everything to my two brothers, excluding me. I felt cut out of my father's will, which felt...
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Get the Summary of Brianna Madia's Nowhere for Very Long in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A woman defined by motion, Brianna Madia bought a beat-up bright orange van, filled it with her two dogs Bucket and Dagwood, and headed into the canyons of Utah with her husband. Nowhere for Very Long is her deeply felt, immaculately told story of exploration-of the world outside and the spirit...
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Get the Summary of Trey Gowdy's Doesn't Hurt to Ask in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: You do not need to be in a courtroom to advocate for others. You do not need to be in Congress to champion a cause. From the boardroom to the kitchen table, opportunities to make your case abound, and Doesn't Hurt to Ask shows you how to seize them. By blending gripping case studies from nearly two...
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Get the Summary of Erica Dhawan's Digital Body Language in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Humans rely on body language to connect and build trust, but with most of our communication happening from behind a screen, traditional body language signals are no longer visible - or are they? In Digital Body Language, Erica Dhawan, a go-to thought leader on collaboration and a passionate communication...
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Get the Summary of David McRaney's How Minds Change in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW MINDS CHANGE is a book about the...
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Get the Summary of John C. Maxwell's Leadershift in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In Leadershift, John C. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Each shift changed...
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#1 Humans are the most intelligent beings on the planet, but we are also the most arrogant. Our intelligence falls short of reminding us of the truth that we may not know everything or be able to solve every problem.
#2 The definition of intelligence is subjective. It can be used to learn new things, deal with new situations, and apply knowledge to manipulate your environment....
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Get the Summary of Rachel Slade's “Into the Raging Sea” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years. No one could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications, a sophisticated navigation system,...
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#1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is the largest Mormon church, is located in Salt Lake City. The choir that performs at the temple is representative of the Mormons as a people: chaste, optimistic, and outgoing. But Mormons and Mormon Fundamentalists believe in the same holy texts and the same sacred history.
#2 The LDS Church is extremely defensive...
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#1 George Halas, the founder of the NFL, was a former football player who got fired from his job as a safety expert for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad because he was unable to stop playing football. He met with the general manager of the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company and proposed starting a professional football league.
#2 George Halas, the founder...