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Get the Summary of Leonard Mlodinow's “Subliminal” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of “The Drunkard's Walk” and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships...
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Get the Summary of Prem Rawat's Hear Yourself in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The cacophony of modern life can be deafening, leaving us feeling frazzled and uneasy. In this warm, wise book, Prem Rawat teaches us how to turn down the noise to "hear ourselves"-to listen to the subtle song of peace that sings inside each of us. Once we learn to truly "hear ourselves" and the voice of...
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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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Get the Summary of Nick Trenton's Stop Overthinking in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Stop Overthinking is a book that understands where you've been through,the exhausting situation you've put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire...
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#1 The concept of intelligence is based on the traditional IQ test, which was invented by Alfred Binet to measure, objectively, comprehension, reasoning, and judgment. However, contemporary research shows that intelligence is not fixed at birth and can be developed throughout life.
#2 The brain is much more flexible and multidimensional than any supercomputer. It can...
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Book Preview: #1 The gap is the space between where you are and where you want to be. Companies that close the gaps in business best, win.
#2 We all have gaps in life, between where we are and where we want to be. These gaps are human nature. Without them, we would have no hopes, dreams, or aspirations. But while there's nothing more human than dreaming of leaping a gap, there are...
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Get the Summary of Ron Lieber's The Price You Pay for College in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple - over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and...
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Book Preview: #1 The importance of fathers is a love-hate relationship in our feminine-primary social order. On the one hand, many people lament the lack of fathers' involvement in their kids' lives, especially boys' lives. On the other hand, many people hate the buffoon, bumbling Dad who is always out of touch with the mainstream.
#2 When it comes to Father's Day, most men receive...
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Book Preview: #1 I received a call from CBS's The Doctors, a long-running medical talk show produced by Dr. Phil. They wanted to help Casey, a sixteen-year-old with chronic abdominal pain so severe that it would regularly cause him to pass out.
#2 I was in my mid-twenties and life was good. I was in graduate school for psychotherapy at USC. I was an outgoing, active guy. But then...
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#1 I have always lied to my mother. I was not her whole life, and she knew it. I was not the woman she wanted to be, and she knew that too.
#2 Mothers may love their children, but they sometimes do not like them. The same woman who may be willing to put her body between her child and a runaway truck may resent the day-by-day sacrifice the child unknowingly demands of...
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Get the Summary of Sonke Ahrens' “How to Take Smart Notes” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organization of ideas and notes. This book helps students, academics, and nonfiction writers to get more done, write intelligent texts, and learn for the long run. It teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you...
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Book Preview: #1 You can be younger than you are today, simply by changing your diet and making some simple lifestyle modifications. The results of a trial conducted by the authors of Younger You were astonishing: participants lowered their biological age by 3. 23 years.
#2 Bio age is based on the premise that our bodies are constantly subject to damage and degradation from internal...
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Get the Summary of Thibaut Meurisse's ‘Immediate Action’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Even the most productive people procrastinate. We all do it, but if you find yourself procrastinating more than is good for you, it might be time to do something about it.
In this short practical guide, you'll discover how to deal with procrastination more effectively-and in just seven days....
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Book Preview:#1 The idea of influence has been corrupted by tacky, greedy people using tacky, greedy tactics to sell used cars, promote sponsors' products on social media, and get us to buy now, while supplies last.
#2 When you become someone people want to say yes to, you are heavily rewarded. Money is not your top priority, but it helps you get other things done and can be a benchmark...
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Get the Summary of Gabor Maté's “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Based on Gabor Maté's two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver's skid row, “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents...
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Get the Summary of Caroline Foster's Narcissistic Mothers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
The issue of toxic mothers challenges the status quo in so many ways but does need to be addressed. Adult children of narcissistic parents are often plagued with so much guilt and sense of deep obligation and shame that they feel duty-bound to keep whatever happened in the family secret, even when it is shredding their...
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Get the Summary of DeVon Franklin's Live Free in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Expectations are the secret software, running on the hardware of our minds, controlling our emotions, decisions, and actions. How?
Think about your life. How much of the sadness you feel derives from what you think should have happened-than with what actually happened?
Think about your career. How much...
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Get the Summary of Brian L. Weiss' Only Love is Real in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Many Lives, Many Masters, a skeptical Dr. Brian Weiss found his life changed profoundly after curing a patient using past-life therapy. Now he takes his research into transcendental messages one breathtaking step further.
He portrays two strangers, Elizabeth and Pedro, who are unaware that they...
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#1 Highly sensitive people are often overwhelmed by stress. They are easily upset by noise and bright lights, and they are often unable to tolerate harsh and aggressive voices.
#2 HSPs are a minority of the population, and they are adversely affected by our fast-paced and aggressive modern industrialized society. They are easily overwhelmed by noise, crowds, and time...
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Get the Summary of Simone Davies' The Montessori Toddler in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: It's time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a "terrible two" into a mutually rich and rewarding time of curiosity, learning, respect, and discovery.
With hundreds of practical ideas...
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