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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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Book Preview: #1 Uric acid is a compound that comes from only three sources: fructose, alcohol, and purines. It is strongly related to being overweight or obese, as well as the risk of cardiovascular problems and hypertension.
#2 The laws of nature, such as the effects of gravity, the principles of time and space, and the importance of food and water to human survival, were established...
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#1 The best CEOs understand that uncertainty favors the bold, and they embrace it by constantly looking for and acting on opportunities that bend the curve of history.
#2 The most successful CEOs reframed what winning meant for their companies. They didn't just raise aspiration levels, they changed the definition of success.
#3 The best CEOs find and amplify intersections...
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Get the Summary of Will Wise and Chad Littlefield's Ask Powerful Questions in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Powerful questions can be used everywhere: from the board room to the city park, the dinner table to the grocery store. If you want to connect with employees at a team building retreat, hone your leadership skills as a new boss, improve the company culture where you work...this...
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Book Preview: #1 DNA had a lackluster start in the scientific world. It was only discovered in 1944, by Dr. Oswald Avery, who was a nearly retired Canadian bacteriologist with a wide forehead and a narrow chin. He was a drably dressed creature of habit.
#2 Avery's experiment proved that DNA was the long-sought-after molecule that conferred hereditary traits. With only four nucleotides...
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#1 Feng shui is a Chinese practice that is about applying common sense and instinct when you plan your spaces or build a home. It is about applying principles that are simple to understand, but that lead to the best possible outcomes for your home.
#2 Feng shui is a practice that focuses on the layout and design of a home. It is based on the physical world — landscape,...
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Get the Summary of Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but as is found in the best history, the same person might be both. At the center of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson-the legendary...
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Get the Summary of Cal Newport's Slow Productivity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport explores the concept of productivity, particularly in knowledge work, where traditional metrics are ill-suited. The book challenges the 20th-century mindset that equates longer hours with better outcomes, highlighting the pitfalls of pseudo-productivity, which leads to stress and burnout. Newport...
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Get the Summary of Katherine Clarke's Billionaires' Row in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Billionaires' Row, Katherine Clarke reveals the captivating story of how, in just a few years, the ruthless real-estate impresarios behind these "supertalls" lining 57th Street turned what was once a run-down strip of Midtown into the most exclusive street on Earth, as legendary Trump-era veterans...
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Get the Summary of Christopher Leonard's The Lords of Easy Money in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If you asked most people what forces led to today's unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy grew, it was credited to the Fed. When the economy...
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Get the Summary of Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for his brilliant but concise work. In it, he explains basic truths about economics and the economic fallacies responsible for unemployment, inflation, high taxes, and recession....
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Get the Summary of Mark Schatzker's The End of Craving in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are prediabetic, more than a hundred million have high blood pressure, and nearly half now qualify as obese. The...
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Get the Summary of Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan's AI 2041 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment....
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Get the Summary of Bjorn Lomborg's False Alarm in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take drastic action immediately to stop it. Children panic about their future, and adults...
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Get the Summary of Johann Hari's “Stolen Focus” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only 65 seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts...
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Get the Summary of John P. Kotter's Leading Change in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: John Kotter's now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process every organization must go through to achieve its goals, and by identifying where and how even top performers derail...
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#1 The biggest flaw of investing time in self-esteem and self-confidence is that they do not provide a means to reorient your life toward justice and compassion. Self-esteem and self-confidence are not scalable, and they are ultimately doomed to fail if they are fueled by ego and external factors.
#2 Self-acceptance is often used as a synonym for acquiescence. We accept...
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Book Preview: #1 Your brain is focused on survival, and it is not easy being a survivor. You have inherited a brain that is focused on survival, and it is not easy being a survivor.
#2 The four happy chemicals are dopamine, endorphin, oxytocin, and serotonin. They are triggered when your brain sees something that is good for your survival, and they turn off when something bad crosses...
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Get the Summary of Rick Reilly's So Help Me Golf in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive....
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Get the Summary of Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad For Teens in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: You're never too young to learn the language of money... and the lessons that rich dad taught Robert. Like it or not, money is a part of our everyday lives and the more we understand it, the better the chance that we can learn to have our money work hard for us - instead of working hard...