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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein Sample Key Takeaways: 1) Nowadays, we are relentlessly and endlessly bombarded with new information. There's always much to remember, yet our brains capture so little of that information. Even the stuff that's worth remembering often makes only a short-lived impression on us before disappearing forever. 2) Education has been tainted by the boring tradition of rote learning....

Buy now to get the key takeaways from Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor. Sample Key Takeaways: 1) The definition of an investment is clear: it's an operation which, after careful analysis, promises safety of principal and adequate returns. 2) There are three parts to the process of investing. First, before buying a stock, you must make a thorough analysis of a company and the soundness of its underlying businesses. Second, you need to protect...

Summary of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit is a thorough examination of several case studies about how habit formation and habit change impact daily life. It details the experiences of individuals, corporations, and organizations to illustrate how habits are made and why, how they can be changed, how habits of all kinds are used in businesses to attract customers or manage employees, and the devastating results of a poorly managed habit…

Summary of Mitchell Zuckoff's 13 Hours is a narrative recounting of the events surrounding the militant attacks on the Benghazi diplomatic compound and the nearby CIA annex on September 11 and 12, 2012. These attacks resulted in the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, State Department communications expert Sean Smith, and two CIA Global Response Staff (GRS) members, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. A similar attack had occurred on June 5, 1967,...

Summary of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow argues that the ongoing "War on Drugs" and the resulting mass incarceration of African Americans is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Beginning in the seventeenth century, institutions emerged in colonial America that contributed to the creation of a racial caste system…

Summary of David Eagleman's Incognito offers a review of science about how the brain works, and considers the nature of human consciousness. Everything a person thinks, believes, and feels emanates from the brain...

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Lindell's What Are the Odds? As a man with severe addiction to gambling, card counting, and cocaine, Mike Lindell made terrible life choices that ultimately cost him his wife, family, and financial stability. However, even as he was drowning in despair, God revealed himself in his life and showed him the miracles he could do, if only he had a flicker of hope. What Are the Odds? traces the troubled chapters...

Sample Key Takeaways: 1) All too often, our society seems to cherish doing things the hard way. This results in the mindset that in order to overachieve, we must overdo. This can lead to problems down the line, because if we're overworking, we're making things more difficult for ourselves. 2) To invert this assumption about our world and work, we need to ask if the opposite is true: "Could our work be made easy?" Asking this simple question can...

Summary of Beth Macy's Dopesick details the explosion of OxyContin use in Appalachia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the widespread heroin addiction that ensued when medical providers began restricting access to prescription opioids in the late 2000s and 2010s. Journalist and author Beth Macy, who once worked as a reporter in Roanoke, Virginia, traces the efforts of local activists, doctors, law enforcement officials, and parents to combat opioid dependence......

Summary of Arianna Huffington's The Sleep Revolution is a call to action to make sleep a priority and reclaim the night for the basic human need of rest. Millions of people use nighttime hours for activities other than sleep. They choose to prioritize work or succumb to an addiction to technology rather than invest those precious hours in sleep. In the United States and increasingly around the world, work culture regards sleep as an inefficient waste...