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Summary of Sandra Aamodt's Why Diets Make Us Fat debunks the fallacy that individuals can sustain significant weight loss through dieting and willpower.
Although people tend to view diets as a matter of willpower, the true determinant in weight loss is not steely resolve to eat less, but the brain's regulation of a target weight, which is different for each individual. Dramatic weight loss is not a realistic, sustainable goal because the brain is...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Ethan M. Rasiel's The McKinsey Way
McKinsey & Co. is one of the leading consulting firms in the world. Its internal functionalities are often kept secret. What lessons could one of its previous employees teach the world about running a firm? In The McKinsey Way (1999), Ethan M. Rasiel offers insight on what makes McKinsey & Co. such a successful enterprise. It's a mix of a perfected problem-solving process, thorough...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Ron Chernow's Titan.
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1) The most extensive quest for John D. Rockefeller's ancestors leads to a ninth-century French family known as the Roquefeuilles, who supposedly lived in a castle.
2) The German lineage of the Rockefellers, on the other hand, can be traced back to the early 1600s in the Rhine valley.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Shefali Tsabary's A Radical Awakening
We all have a yearning for freedom, yet we feel encaged in our everyday lives, succumbing to feelings of fear and not being worthy enough. Shefali Tsabary offers a path out of that cage and toward a new vision of yourself and your future – a radical awakening.
In A Radical Awakening (2021), the acclaimed clinical psychologist and bestselling author shows women how to overcome...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Andrew Kap's The Last Law of Attraction Book You'll Ever Need To Read.
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1) The Law of Attraction is a philosophy whose premise is that our life is shaped by our thoughts: positive thoughts bring positive experiences, and negative thoughts bring negative experiences.
2) The basis of the Law of Attraction is that you have to believe that something is possible for it to be possible. If you want...
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Summary of Greg Mckeown's Essentialism outlines a minimalist approach to tasks and obligations by focusing on truly important goals and learning to turn down opportunities that do not directly contribute to meeting those goals. The modern fixation with multitasking and having it all has paradoxically resulted in accomplished, motivated people doing many relatively unimportant things poorly while neglecting their true goals because they are afraid...
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Summary of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street first published in 1973 and as of 2015 is in its eleventh edition. Despite numerous market shifts and technological developments since 1973, Malkiel asserts that the investment strategy laid out in the first edition of the book holds true: the best way to earn money in the stock market is to buy and hold a diversified and balanced portfolio of index funds.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jacob Goldstein's Money
What is money? This question is often asked and can take on an existential dimension. In Money (2020), Jacob Goldstein offers a thorough account of the birth, evolution, and use of money across the ages, from Ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, from copper coins to digital currencies. Money is essentially a made-up aspect of humanity that has very real and tangible effects. It...
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Summary of Nick Hornby's Funny Girl is a novel by writer Nick Hornby set in Blackpool, England in 1964. It tells the story of twenty-one year old Barbara Parker, a beautiful blonde, who wants to become a comedic actress like Lucille Ball.
Barbara wins the Miss Blackpool beauty pageant. Barbara wants more than anything to get out of Blackpool. When she realizes the title of Miss Blackpool commits her to a year of hospital visits and charity events,...
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Summary of Michael Bennett & Sarah Bennett's F*ck Feelings is a self-help book with a pragmatic outlook on the types of change that individuals can expect in their lives given a specific set of circumstances. Most advice runs counter to the big promises made by other self-help books, stating instead that there are some things that readers will be able to change, some things they want to change but cannot, and unintended consequences to even the most...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Guy Kawasaki's The Art of the Start 2.0
The hardest part of any project is starting it-and this is especially true when it comes to businesses. Guy Kawasaki's The Art of the Start 2.0 (2015) aims to facilitate the multiple beginning stages of a startup. This revised version of the 2004 original explains how entrepreneurs can form their dream teams, pitch their business ideas, raise funds, be good leaders, and...
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Summary of Claudia Kalb's Andy Warhol was a Hoarder offers 12 short biographies of famous individuals, focusing on their individual struggles with mental illness. The biographies are used to help illustrate and provide information about different mental disorders, such as OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) and gambling addiction. In turn, the discussion of mental illness provides insight into the personalities of notable historical individuals, including...
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Summary of Gary John Bishop's Unfu*k Yourself is a no-nonsense guide to breaking through destructive thought patterns that block potential and degrade well being.
When struggling with failure or stagnation, it is often difficult for individuals to determine how to extricate themselves from such situations…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael J. Gelb's How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
Our understanding of the complexity of human intelligence and the wide abilities of the human brain is growing, which proves that we are naturally a lot more gifted than we might think.
In How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci (1998), Michael J. Gelb studies master painter and scientist Leonardo da Vinci. Gelb analyzes da Vinci-based methods for sharpening...
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Summary of Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey's Driven to Distraction is a detailed study of attention deficit disorder (ADD) first published in 1994. The authors define the disorder, describe its subtypes, explain how it's diagnosed, outline its effects on the lives of people with the condition, and enumerate its forms of treatment…