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Get the Summary of Ryan Holiday's Discipline Is Destiny in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Discipline Is Destiny" by Ryan Holiday explores the pivotal role of discipline in achieving greatness and self-mastery. The book draws on historical figures like Lou Gehrig, whose consistent performance and modest lifestyle exemplified discipline, and Toni Morrison, who maintained a disciplined writing routine amidst challenges....
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#1 Your life is made up of many lifetimes, lived consecutively. You experience cruelty and kindness from both sides. The modern era is rare, because it is the only time in your life when you experience such dramatic population growth.
#2 The idea of longtermism is that positively influencing the longterm future is a key moral priority of our time. It is about taking...
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Get the Summary of Edward Snowden's Permanent Record in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented...
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Book Preview: #1 Some people may be better at listening to their bodies and getting good judgments than others. The best financial traders are not necessarily the most intelligent, but rather those who are the most sensitive to interoceptive signals.
#2 Interoception is the awareness of the inner state of the body. It is generated in places all over the body, and then travels via...
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Book Preview: #1 In 1977, a young woman from Hyesan traveled to Pyongyang to visit her brother. She was invited to join the officers in playing games to pass the time, and she sang a song for the passengers. She was taken with the officer's military bearing and self-assurance.
#2 My mother was in love with my father, and they began writing to each other every week. One night, six...
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#1 The Bronze Age is characterized by the affirmation of wild and materially inclined virility. Genuine authority no longer exists in this age, only power affirmed by means of force. The Age of Iron or Dark Cycle is ruled by economic power.
#2 The world axis corresponds to the heart axis in man. The person who performs his duties in line with the values of Tradition...
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#1 The path leading from the initial assumption that we are physical objects obeying the laws of physics to an understanding of our conscious minds is strewn with difficulties, both empirical and conceptual.
#2 I have often dismissed ideas that seem strange to me at first, but I have found that they are extremely important and have deeply contributed to my view. I am...
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#1 Sri Ramana defined the Self as being-consciousness-bliss, which is a single immanent reality that is simultaneously the source, the substance, and the real nature of everything that exists. He also referred to it as God, the Heart, and Brahman.
#2 The Self is the underlying reality that supports the appearance of the other three temporary states. It is one's real...
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Book Preview:#1 On November 15, 2018, I learned that I had lost the election by a margin of 54,723 votes. My conversation with my campaign manager, Lauren Groh-Wargo, was perfunctory. We discussed the hard truth of the likely outcome and made preparations for the next day.
#2 The campaign had sent volunteers and staff across Georgia to chase provisional ballots from voters who'd stood...
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Book Preview: #1 Modern trans activism is based on four axioms: 1. You have an important inner state called a gender identity. 2. For some people, inner gender identity doesn't match the biological sex—male or female—originally assigned to them at birth. 3. Gender identity, not biological sex, is what makes you a man or a woman. 4. The existence of trans people generates a moral...
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#1 The heroes of today's movies are following the same script as the Hero's Journey, a template of storytelling that spans the ages. It is a path of adventure, ordeals, and transformation.
#2 You are the hero of your life. You are responsible for what happens and what doesn't. You decide who gets cast in which roles and even the lines you speak. You must write your own...
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#1 You constantly split your mind into consciousness and subconsciousness. You are doing it right now—breathing, blinking, swallowing, maintaining your posture, and holding your mouth closed while you read. You could pull those systems into conscious control or leave them to the autonomic nervous system.
#2 The subjects in the study did not wash away their emotions,...
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Book Preview: #1 I see a broken man when I think about my time in the Senate. I was standing in the inner office of the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, who had led the charge to pass universal background checks. But four months earlier, his six-year-old son had been shot dead in his first-grade classroom.
#2 The support of a broad, bipartisan majority of senators and the American...
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Book Preview: #1 I was extremely nervous and excited to go to a predominantly white school. I struggled to make new friends because I was always thinking about how I looked, spoke, and acted.
#2 I was not alone in my struggle to understand my new classmates. I was extremely nervous about going to school, because I was not one of the popular girls, and I was sure that they would make...
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Book Preview: #1 I was born in the late 1940s, and raised in a lower middle-class household. My father was a trade unionist and a member of the Labour Party, who always wondered whether he had, in becoming a teacher in a primary school, betrayed his working-class origins.
#2 I had to learn how to live with my father, who was a socialist. I understood from him just how deeply class...
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#1 The Encheiridion is a selection from Epictetus's speeches that are most timely and essential to philosophy. It was originally written by Arrian, a Platonist philosopher, and was adapted and paraphrased by Christians in the Middle Ages.
#2 The transmission of Epictetus's work is free from serious contamination and scribal error for the most part. My translation of...
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#1 The American society that was growing in the mid-1800s was the result of a European historical process that had begun in the sixteenth century, when religious reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin had subjected some of the dogmas of the ancient faith to individual reason.
#2 Tocqueville was writing about a century that had produced two great and very different...
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#1 The philosopher must use his own capacity to think rationally to argue and justify his doubt. He cannot afford to doubt that ability. The reality of time can be doubted because the traditional concept of time contains contradictions.
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Book Preview: #1 The prevailing social vision of our time is the intellectual and political elite's view of society. It is not that these views are particularly evil or erroneous, but rather that they are taken for granted by so many people that their assumptions and corollaries are rarely challenged.
#2 The prevailing vision of our time is that of a special state of grace for those...
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Book Preview:#1 In 1943, José Antonio Rey María was a fish spotter for the fishermen of Punta Umbria, Spain. He saw a body floating in the water, and when he rowed closer, he realized it was a man. He brought the body ashore and none of the other fishermen wanted to touch it.
#2 The British Secret Service had created a man from nothing in a basement room beneath the Admiralty building...
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