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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 George W. Bush's 41 offers an inside look at his father, George H.W. Bush, and the family that produced the forty-first and forty-third presidents of the United States. On his ninetieth birthday, George H.W. made a parachute jump despite serious health issues. He said it was his second greatest birthday wish, after happiness for his family. Though his family worried, he had always been excited by a new adventure. When he landed safely,...

Buy now to get the main key ideas from H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace's The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception Just like magicians, spies need to do their job without anyone noticing. In the 1950s, the CIA even hired magicians to teach its agents how to use stealth and trickery. In The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception (2009), espionage experts H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace detail how and why the CIA hired its first...

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carey Nieuwhof's At Your Best After burnout almost took a toll on him several years ago, Carey Nieuwhof discovered key solutions to reorganize his time, energy, and priorities. In At Your Best (2021), he lays out strategies to follow today in order to thrive tomorrow and fight perpetual stress. He provides readers with advice on how to benefit from daily productivity phases, and invites them to create a personalized...

Summary of Hillary Rodham Clinton's What Happened is a memoir of Clinton's experience running for president of the United States in 2016. In the November general election, she won the popular vote by more than 3 million votes but won fewer delegates to the electoral college, which elects the president of the United States…

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jeffrey D. Sachs's The End of Poverty Can extreme poverty be eradicated in our lifetime? Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a detailed analysis of poverty in the world and proposes solutions in The End of Poverty (2005). He runs an economic diagnostic of the problem and offers practical solutions, integrating misconceptions and countering them. The End of Poverty is built on Sachs' rich background in development economics...

Summary of John Carreyrou's Bad Blood is a briskly paced narrative of the rise and fall of Theranos, the company that perpetrated perhaps the biggest fraud in medical technology history. The book follows the central characters in the company's saga, especially Elizabeth Holmes, its founder...

Summary of Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a dating advice book by comedian and radio personality Steve Harvey. As a man, Harvey has insight into how men think and what they want out of relationships.