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#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...
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Get the Summary of Chris Bailey's Hyperfocus in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today. Many of us recognize that our brains struggle to multitask. Despite this, we feel compelled to do so anyway while we fill each moment of our lives to the brim with mindless distraction. Hyperfocus provides profound insights into how you can best...
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Get the Summary of Hubert Joly's The Heart of Business in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Heart of Business, Joly shares the philosophy behind the resurgence of Best Buy: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center of the business, create an environment where every employee can blossom, and treat profit as an outcome, not the goal.
This approach is easy to understand, but...
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#1 I'd like to thank my publisher, Hay House, who have supported me for many years through my development as an author and have always enabled me to write about the subjects I've wanted to. I also thank all the people who sent me stories of their own uses of visualization.
#2 The mind impacts the body. Thoughts, feelings, ideas, imagination, beliefs, and expectations...
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Get the Summary of Thomas Piketty's “A Brief History of Equality” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the...
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Get the Summary of Steven Bartlett's Happy Sexy Millionaire in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As an 18-year-old, black, broke, lonely, insecure, university drop-out, from a bankrupt family, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to be a 'Happy Sexy Millionaire' by the age of 25. By 25 I was a multi-millionaire having created a business worth over $300m dollars. Ironically, in achieving everything...
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Get the Summary of Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.
What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have...
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Book Preview: #1 Wang Zhao was a Chinese monk who, in the first spring of the twentieth century, delivered a document that would change the Chinese-speaking world forever. He had been hiding out in Japan for the past two years, carrying a hefty bounty on his head. His desire to go home eclipsed his fear of capture.
#2 The Chinese language seemed to be a major impediment to China's...
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#1 A Hook Point is a piece of copy, an insight from statistics or a professional's point of view, a philosophy, or a person's thought that can help you get people interested in your content or business. It helps you generate new leads, launch products successfully, generate social followers at scale, and drive massive revenue growth.
#2 Hooks are an important...
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#1 It's a book-length essay about Reagan's novels, which Byrne describes as insightful, thoughtful, and a valuable contribution to the literature of the American Dream. According to Byrne, these books were the first to argue that government should never intrude on the lives of Americans. They were also among the first to feature an African American family in a positive...
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Get the Summary of Nick Maggiulli's Just Keep Buying in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Everyone faces big questions when it comes to money: questions about saving, investing, and whether you're getting it right with your finances.
Unfortunately, many of the answers provided by the financial industry have been based on belief and conjecture rather than data and evidence—until now.
In...
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Get the Summary of John E. Sarno's The Mindbody Prescription in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Musculoskeletal pain disorders have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with most doctors failing to recognize their underlying cause. In this acclaimed volume, Dr. Sarno reveals how many painful conditions- including most neck and back pain, migraine, repetitive stress injuries,...
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Book Preview: #1 iSight Partners, a private intelligence firm, had a team that specialized in software vulnerability research. In 2014, they discovered a secret security flaw in Microsoft Office that allowed hackers to break out of the confines of the software application and begin to execute their own code on a target computer.
#2 iSight's Ukrainian staff found the email, and Hultquist,...
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Get the Summary of Tom Kelley & David Kelley's ‘Creative Confidence’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But, two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining...
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Get the Summary of Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw...
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Get the Summary of Andrew Henderson's ‘Nomad Capitalist’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: What it will give you is a vision of what's possible, including second passport opportunities, offshore banking countries to use (and avoid), specific jurisdictions to consider for business and investment, and the basic framework you will need to legally lower your taxes and build the life...
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Book Preview: #1 When you're pregnant, you think that life will be different once you have a child. But five months into the pregnancy, I realized that the feeling of being weighed down by adulthood wasn't going to get any better any time soon.
#2 When we moved to Paris, we had no idea where we would end up, but we were sure that we would be living outside of the United States. We...
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Get the Summary of Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society. They show how freedom has been eroded and prosperity undermined through the rapid growth of governmental...
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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...
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Get the Summary of Cade Metz's Genius Makers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a sixty-four-year-old computer science professor who didn't drive and didn't fly because he could no longer sit...