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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 Jason L. Riley's Maverick
Throughout history, the world has witnessed discriminations, hostilities, and injustices. It seems that no matter how much human beings evolve, racism will always be manifested in societies, and the fight against it is far deeper and more complicated than what activists, movements, and organizations like to acknowledge.
In Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell (2021), Jason L. Riley...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jane McLelland's How to Starve Cancer
In How to Starve Cancer (2018), Jane McLelland guides readers through her challenging experience with cancer and how she found alternative treatments far less harmful than conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy. By chronicling her personal battle, she aims to assure cancer patients that they can take control of their destiny by following a cancer-suppressing approach...
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Summary of Robert Greene's The Art of Seduction is a self-help book about manipulating people for personal gain. Seduction is not merely a matter of sex; it can be a way to make sales, gain political power, or generally persuade others in the service of one's own goals...
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Summary of Ann Coulter's Adios, America is a book centered around immigration in the United States, including the impact immigration has had on US history, government policies, and society in general.
Modern policies regarding immigration tends to lean in favor of the immigrant. This possibly comes from the fact that Hispanic immigrants often vote heavily in favor of Democrats, therefore Democrats have established policy that makes it easier for illegal...
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Summary of Nadia Hashimi's The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Afghan American novelist Nadia Hashimi tells an intergenerational story of two Afghan women whose lives are different but connected. Rahima, a teenage girl, lives in twenty-first-century Afghanistan. In the wake of Taliban rule, Afghanistan's government is divided and the culture is fractured. Shekiba, Rahima's great-great-grandmother, lives in early twentieth-century Afghanistan, under...
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Summary of Dan Ariely's Dollars and Sense introduces readers to the psychology of purchase decisions.
Consumers have difficulty calculating the value of the things they want to buy, particularly because comparisons between different types of costs can be challenging to comprehend.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth
Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth (2021) teaches readers how to make money by investing in STRs: short-term and vacation rental properties. Carl shares the strategies that allowed her to make hundreds of thousands of dollars from investing in short-term rentals within five years. She highlights questions that all potential investors should ask and...
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Private investigator, Bill Hodges, races to find another deranged killer in Finders Keepers, the second book in a projected trilogy by Stephen King. The first, Mr. Mercedes, won the 2015 Edgar Award for best mystery novel. Finder Keepers, while a strong, stand alone book, continues the themes of the first book by examining of the nature of obsession while also offering a close look at the relationship between literature and the real world.
In 1978,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kati Marton's The Chancellor
The chancellor of Germany does not rule with sovereign power, but by persuasion and support of its political parties. That's what makes Angela Merkel's contributions to Germany, Europe, and the entire world during her 16 years as chancellor so remarkable.
Kati Marton's The Chancellor (2021) details this legacy from Merkel's humble beginnings in East Germany through her meteoric rise...
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Summary of Esther Perel's The State of Affairs is an examination of unfaithfulness in romantic relationships-what it is, why it happens, and how different cultures handle it-as well as an exploration of what affairs can teach all lovers about healthy relationships. Perel takes a non-judgmental approach to the motivations of the cheater and the outside lover, as well as to the contributions of the betrayed partner to the relationship crisis..
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Gregg Olsen's If You Tell
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1) Shelly's father, Les Watson, had three children with his first wife, Sharon. After Les remarried in 1960, two of them, Shelly and Chuck, were dropped off for his new wife, Lara, to care for. Paul, the third one, was picked up after Sharon was murdered in 1967 at a motel.
2) They lived in Battle Ground, Washington. Lara began noticing that the kids were odd....
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Liane Moriarty's Apples Never Fall
In Apples Never Fall (2021), best-selling novelist Liane Moriarty delves into the complicated life of the Delaneys, an Australian family of six who appear to be living an exemplary life until the mother, Joy, goes missing. The four adult children start looking more deeply into their family's history, discovering ugly truths that had affected their parents' marriage throughout...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
The more information we receive daily, the more forgetful we become. We are bombarded with data, advice, and opinions, which we anxiously try to stockpile, but we often can't remember key information when we need it. In Building a Second Brain (2022), productivity expert Tiago Forte explains how fixing this problem starts with one simple step: writing things down. With the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Marie Forleo's Everything is Figureoutable
In Everything Is Figureoutable (2019), Marie Forleo provides the ultimate shortcut to taking charge of our life and transforming it, revealing the single most important belief to cultivate when it comes to creating our own success. By shifting our perspective and understanding that everything in life can be figured out - that is, if we want it to be - we step into our...
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Buy now to get the insights from Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker.
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1) After her parents moved from Washington, DC, to Hilo, Hawaii, Jennifer Doudna had a rough childhood trying to fit in. This pushed her to focus on science and books.
2) Amid the rich natural environment of Hawaii, Doudna was most fascinated by the "sleeping grass," which curls its fern-like leaves whenever touched.