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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Nicholas Sparks's Safe Haven
Nicholas Sparks's novel Safe Haven (2010) is a story of hope and love prevailing against abuse and distress. With a fake identity and very little money, a mysterious young woman named Katie arrives in Southport, North Carolina, leaving behind a life engulfed in torture and horror. As she tries to heal her scars and trust people again, she meets Alex, a widowed father of two, who...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Steven Pinker's Rationality
Rationality is essential. It shapes decisions that affect our lives and the public, and is the greatest leader of moral advancement and social justice. In Rationality (2021), Steven Pinker refutes the cliché that human beings are an irrational species, eternally doomed with biases, errors, and illusions. After all, humans uncovered the unfathomable laws of nature, extended and enhanced...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Quint Studer's The Busy Leader's Handbook
Being a great leader starts by getting the fundamentals right and practicing the little things. In The Busy Leader's Handbook (2019), Quint Studer addresses leaders willing to make the change necessary to take their companies to the next level. He gives simple and straightforward tips about engaging employees, recreating cultures, and building a high-performance company....
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Summary of Robert Cialdini's Pre-suasion is a research-driven examination of the ways that framing a persuasive argument can influence its effectiveness. Extensive research finds that certain ways of setting up a persuasion can be more effective than a well-planned persuasive argument on its own.
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Summary of Bruce Lipton's The Biology of Belief by cell biologist Bruce Lipton explores the power of the mind to influence health and well being. The Biology of Belief provides scientific proof that debunks the notion of fixed genetic inheritance, or that genes create reality...
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Summary of Frans de Waal's Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? provides an overview of the history of animal cognition research and the most recent discoveries about animal intelligence. As researchers continue to improve methods for testing animals' cognitive abilities, they are discovering that animals process, respond to, and act on stimuli in ways previously assumed to be exclusively human…
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Eknath Easwaran's The Bhagavad Gita.
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1) The Bhagavad Gita serves as a personal guide. It offers questions and answers on how to successfully survive in a world full of obstacles and change. It is a map for life.
2) The central subject of the Bhagavad Gita is not the external war, but the war within. It tackles the fight for self-mastery that is present within every person, a battle that...
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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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Summary of DeVon Franklin & Meagan Good with Tim Vandehey's The Wait describes the ways a celibate mindset can impact various facets of life, including a person's relationship with God.
The Wait is a self-improvement strategy that has its foundations in delayed gratification, a challenging concept in a culture dominated by instant gratification. While The Wait is centrally focused on remaining celibate until marriage, its lessons in delayed gratification...
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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.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Stacey Abrams's While Justice Sleeps
In While Justice Sleeps (2021), Stacey Abrams narrates a thrilling tale of a brilliant young lawyer with an eidetic memory who saves the world through her loyalty to a man others had deemed insane. The novel follows Avery Keene as she deciphers the cryptic messages left to her by Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn before he went into a coma. Avery discovers shocking secrets...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kristin Neff's Self-Compassion
In Self-Compassion, Kristen Neff provides a comprehensive guide to developing self-compassion as a way of life, based on empirical research and her own lived experiences.
Contemporary society pushes the idea that having a healthy self-esteem is the ultimate aim. Pursuing self-esteem, however, results in social and psychological instability. Self-compassion is a beneficial alternative...
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Summary of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls is a World War II-era novel based on real people and events. The novel tells the intertwined stories of three women: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite and philanthropist; Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women; and Herta Oberheuser, a Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart (2021) by Michelle Zauner is a memoir about her upbringing as a Korean American struggling with her identity and dealing with the untimely death of her mother from cancer.
H Mart is an Asian supermarket chain that provides Zauner and other transplanted Asian-Americans the tastes, smells, and products of their home countries and families. For Zauner, food was...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Duncan's Hero of Two Worlds
In Hero of Two Worlds (2021), Mike Duncan takes readers on a ride down history to discover the life of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat and general who became an American hero. In his historical biography, Duncan highlights the political events that traced Lafayette's heroic life and how he profoundly contributed to the evolution of French and American society...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Dr. Jessamy Hibberd's The Imposter Cure
If you ever feel that you are unworthy - of your success, your friendships, your family - you are likely struggling with imposter syndrome. In The Imposter Cure (2019), Dr. Jessamy Hibberd breaks down the common symptoms and causes of imposter syndrome. She explains the importance of knowing where your imposter syndrome comes from, and sheds light on how common and normal...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Andy Staples and Trevor Moawad's It Takes What It Takes
You can learn to train your most important asset, your mind, with Andy Staples and Trevor Moawad's It Takes What It Takes (2020). Training your mind is similar to training your muscles in the sports world, so you can be strong and at your best when critical moments arrive. Training will expand your capacities. It will improve your self-esteem and relationships,...
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Summary of Patrick J. Kennedy's A Common Struggle is a memoir chronicling his struggles with mental illness and addiction. Patrick uses himself and his family as an example of the stigma and confusion surrounding mental illness in the US and explains the history of mental illness and mental health policy in that context…
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Summary of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic self-help book. It instructs readers on ways to improve their standing with others and convince others to do things using strategic courtesy, conversational techniques, and proven methods of motivation.