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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 Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There generalizes from his personal experience as a business consultant to explain how successful leaders can diagnose and correct interpersonal problems that are holding them back at work. Using data-driven analysis and simple behavioral modification techniques, senior executives and other leaders can improve their relationships with employees by adopting an attitude of humility and...

Summary of Ray Dalio's Big Debt Crises is an economic primer based on the proprietary decision-making system used at the author's hugely successful hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Financial crises across history tend to share certain features...

Buy now to get the key takeaways from Elie Wiesel's Night. Sample Key Takeaways: 1) Author and narrator Eliezer Wiesel, who was twelve when the story begins in 1941, was a Jewish boy living with his family in a small town named Sighet, in what we now know as Romania. 2) In 1942, during World War II, the local authorities decided to kick out all Jews who were foreign from Sighet. They were packed into trains and sent off. The other inhabitants of...

Summary of Tom Reiss's The Black Count is the Pulitzer Prize winning biography written by author Tom Reiss. The book traces the life of Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, also known as Alexandre Dumas, a black general who fought in the French Revolution.

Summary of Steven C. Hayes & Spencer Smith's Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life is a self-help book that encourages people to detach from the causes of suffering, embrace their psychological pain, identify their values, and take action toward those values. The process is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based therapy that focuses on techniques of mindfulness, acceptance, and values-centric living...

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Chris Wallace's Countdown bin Laden In Countdown bin Laden (2021), Chris Wallace, alongside Mitch Weiss, sets out a detailed account of the CIA's 247-day preparations for the raid that ultimately led to Osama bin Laden's death. Wallace and Weiss write a thrilling new description of the last eight months of CIA gatherings and careful military preparations that resulted in the revenge that the US had been looking...

Summary of Jessica Bennett's Feminist Fight Club is a guide for women to counteract behaviors and trends in the workplace that disproportionately damage their ability to succeed. Bennett's outlook on feminism was shaped early in her career by regular meetings with other women to discuss obstacles and share their successes in what they called a "feminist fight club."