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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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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 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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#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 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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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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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 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 In our culture, extroversion is considered the norm. It is the club that everyone wants to be part of. But introverts are not inferior to extroverts, and vice versa. We are different personality types with different needs and motivations.
#2 The introvert's way is wrong, and the extrovert's way is right. The right way is the extrovert's way.
#3 The extrovert's way...
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Get the Summary of Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush's Walking Each Other Home in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Walking Each Other Home" by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush is a contemplative exploration of death, love, and the human experience. As Mirabai Bush arrives in Maui to discuss the profound subject of death with Ram Dass, they reflect on the impact of acknowledging mortality on living fully. Ram Dass shares his practice...
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Get the Summary of Daniel Sloss' Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Though I've read and enjoyed some summaries on self-help books, I've not come across one so detailed and straightforward as this summary. It is so engaging and carefully captures the central idea in the book Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die. Written intelligently, this book gives straightforward...
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Book Preview: #1 I am a psychologist who has spent much of his career studying psychotherapy. My book, Client-Centered Therapy, is about the suffering and the hope, the anxiety and the satisfaction, that fills each therapist's counseling room. It is about the unique relationship each therapist forms with each client, and the common elements that they all share.
#2 I was raised in...
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Book Preview: #1 I learned about the slave trade that brought my ancestors to America, and I grew up hearing about the Atlantic Ocean as a symbol of sorrow, while the Negro spirituals I sang as a child were a symbol of freedom and peace.
#2 I believe that finding peace is important because, more and more, I feel the tension rising. We are thirsty for the river and hungry for the fruit...
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#1 The Parable of the New Pastures is a sequel to the Tragedy of the Commons. It illustrates the problem of cooperation. When individual and collective interest are neither perfectly aligned nor perfectly opposed, as in Hardin's parable, any one of the herders is better off adding more animals to her herd, but this leads to collective ruin, which is not in anyone's...
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#1 Everyone, including you, has to deal with crazy every day. Crazy is irrational, and it refers to the inability of someone to see the world clearly, say or think things that make no sense, make decisions and take actions that aren't in their best interest, or become impossible when you try to guide them back to reason.
#2 The same rule applies to dealing with irrational...
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Get the Summary of Pete Walker's Complex PTSD in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd.
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Book Preview: #1 Anger is a signal that something is wrong, and it is up to us to listen to it. We have long been discouraged from the awareness and expression of anger, and this has led to the Taboo of Anger against women.
#2 We all have a right to everything we feel, and our anger is no exception. But there are questions we can ask ourselves to help us understand our anger: What...
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#1 It is always a pleasure to see dedicated and serious students of NLP put their talents to work. In this case, Joseph O'Connor and John Seymour have done an exquisite job in presenting fundamental NLP principles and tools in an easily accessible form.
#2 The oral traditions of people in intact cultures are a comfort and a challenge to them. The singers who bear witness...
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#1 This book is about how to learn in harmony with your brain. It is now possible to write an easy-to-read, research-based book on this topic because scientists have developed highly effective tools for looking inside the human brain.
#2 Your brain changes when you learn something new. Learning takes energy, so don't underestimate the energy consumed by your brain when...
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