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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Lara Doherty's The Mighty Book of Motivation Magic
If you feel like you've lost purpose, The Mighty Book of Motivation Magic (2021) can change your life. Humans tend to get stuck in patterns and habits, and major change frightens them. This is why motivation coach Lara Doherty walks you through baby steps toward change. Doherty offers tips and tricks as easy as buying a plant or drinking a glass of water, with...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Dean Karnazes's A Runner's High
A Runner's High (2021) is an autobiography that tells the story of 58-year-old ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes and his return to the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run in 2018, after a 10-year break. Karnazes looks back on his adventures and reflects on his life as a runner. He describes his experience participating in the Bishop High Sierra 100K and then the big one itself...
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A young woman unravels the mystery of her birth and learns about love and forgiveness in Purity, a coming of age saga that also takes a hard look at 21 st century investigative journalism and the cult of personality.
At 23, Purity 'Pip' Tyler is working in phone sales and struggling to pay back $130,000 in student loans. She has few friends and often tangles with her overbearing and overwrought mom, Penelope. Penelope frustrates her by refusing to...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jared Diamond's The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
In The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee (1991), Jared Diamond traces the history of the human species and uncovers the ancestral origins of our social and environmental issues. Our problems have been intensifying for a long time, along with our growing numbers and powers. Even though we have managed to rise from our past animal state, we are slowly...
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Summary of Liane Moriarty's Truly Madly Guilty, a novel by Liane Moriarty, flashes back and forth in time between the afternoon of a traumatic barbecue and its aftermath. The story, which unfolds in Sydney, Australia, and its suburbs, describes the lives of the attendees two months after the barbecue where a little girl nearly drowned. Under a backdrop of incessant rain, over a period of months, three families cope with fallout from their fateful...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mohandas K. Gandhi's An Autobiography
Mohandas K. Gandhi's An Autobiography (1927) chronicles a life of sacrifice, abstinence, love, and humility. Gandhi recounts his life from his early childhood until 1921, tracing the painful and challenging path he took as he searched for Truth and utmost humility. He details the moral experiments he conducted through self-abnegation, and tackles the topics of child marriage,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown's Hacking Growth
In Hacking Growth (2017), Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown introduce the concept of growth hacking and explain how to implement it successfully. Growth hacking focuses on customers: how they interact with a company and its products, and how to acquire and retain them. It's based on bringing together teams from different areas of specialization to test and implement productive...
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Summary of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City is a book by Erik Larson that takes a close look at The World's Columbian Exposition, the world's fair that Chicago hosted in 1893, held in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. The fair was tainted by deaths, a serial killer, and an assassination.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Elie Wiesel's Night.
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1) Author and narrator Eliezer Wiesel, who was twelve when the story begins in 1941, was a Jewish boy living with his family in a small town named Sighet, in what we now know as Romania.
2) In 1942, during World War II, the local authorities decided to kick out all Jews who were foreign from Sighet. They were packed into trains and sent off. The other inhabitants of...
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Summary of Daniel J. Siegel's Aware is a comprehensive guide to cultivating attention, awareness, and intention through mindfulness. Siegel developed the Wheel of Awareness, a visual metaphor designed to help anyone cultivate heightened awareness and focused attention…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jack D. Schwager's Unknown Market Wizards
Unknown Market Wizards (2020) is a continuation of the Market Wizards series that trader Jack D. Schwager started in 1989. This time, instead of talking to famed traders, Schwager set out to see if he could find traders who are little known even though they have a long record of success. To his amazement, he found not one but eleven with great track records. In Unknown...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Clint Pulver's I Love it Here
It is completely possible for your employees to say positive things when asked about their company - if their concerns are being heard and answered. As Undercover Millennials, workforce expert Clint Pulver and his team spoke to countless employees and gathered valuable information about what they need from their managers. In I Love It Here (2021), Clint details how you can build...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from John C. Maxwell's Developing The Leader Within You 2.0.
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1) Although the subject was overlooked in the '90s, people have come to realize the importance of leadership and the life-altering effect it has.
2) People make all kinds of wrong assumptions when it comes to developing leadership. Everyone can be a leader, it's just a matter of who is willing to put in the effort to become one.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Steven Kotler's The Art of Impossible.
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1) A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. You need to start somewhere. Stalking the impossible means you need to start digging deep on a daily basis.
2) There is a formula for the impossible. When we see the seemingly impossible become possible, we are witnessing the culmination of a quartet of skills-motivation, learning, creativity, and...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Danny Trejo & Donal Logue's Trejo
In Trejo (2021), actor Danny Trejo along with his collaborator and friend Donal Logue puts his hectic and action-filled life on display. Trejo's memoir covers a journey that started with a crime and drug ridden young adulthood and ended with an elderhood that's filled with fame, wealth, faith, and sobriety. Trejo's success story, as an American born with Mexican roots, can serve...
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Summary of Chris Guillebeau's The $100 Startup demonstrates how creative individuals can monetize their passions and attain independence from traditional employment. Author Chris Guillebeau argues that solo entrepreneurs can use their skills and personal interests to build a high income even when they only have a paltry amount of startup capital…
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Summary of Dick Morris & Eileen McGann's Armageddon is an attack on 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and an enthusiastic endorsement of Republican nominee Donald Trump. The book argues that Clinton is corrupt and will destroy the country if elected. By contrast, Trump is a strong, brave, noble politician.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Newt Gingrich's Beyond Biden
The 2020 presidential election was one of the most divisive in American history. While Joe Biden came out victorious, the extremely small margin of victory demonstrated the large portion of Americans who wanted to return to conservative values.
Newt Gingrich is one of those people, and as he explains in Beyond Biden, the conservative electoral base has nothing to fear - following...
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Summary of Norman Doidge's The Brain That Changes Itself explores breakthroughs in neuroscience regarding plasticity, or the brain's ability to change. Doidge shares inspiring stories of the work done by what he calls "neuroplasticians"-neuroscientists who are pioneering new methods for optimizing brain function...
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