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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Tiffany Aliche's Get Good with Money.
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1) Ten financial areas in your life need to be worked on in order to achieve financial wholeness, giving you a strong foundation that will provide you with benefits and richness in life.
2) There are ten steps to becoming financially whole. The first five are building a budget, planning savings, managing debt, getting a high credit score, and increasing...
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In December of 1991, Steve Eisman was working for Oppenheimer and Co. as an analyst and became known for his knack for ignoring consensus, an analysis of a stock's future sales and earnings.
In the early 1990s, the Salomon Brothers trading floor began a whole new bond market by packaging mortgages into bonds. In this way, they began to tap the unused equity many people had in their homes, driving the interest rates of mortgages so low that even those...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from MJ DeMarco's Unscripted
Tired of being lulled into a mediocre existence by mindless video games, rejuvenating weekends, and a pitiful income from a soul-suffocating job? Welcome to the Scripted club, where membership is neither perceptible nor consensual.
In Unscripted (2017), MJ DeMarco reveals how we've been culturally constructed for slavery since we were old enough to sit patiently in a classroom, inadvertently...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mo Rocca's Mobituaries
Mo Rocca immortalizes a selection of people, concepts, and even objects in Mobituaries (2019). Rocca creates the send-off that he believes the subjects deserve, whatever was said about them when they died or faded away, and helps readers fully understand their impact. Some things are meant to be remembered, so Rocca has provided these humorous yet informative retellings.
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Summary of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic is a book of motivational passages, anecdotes, and quotes meant to inspire readers to embrace creativity in whatever form is most natural for them. By exploring creativity through real life experiences and words of encouragement, readers learn to face what holds them back from embracing inspiration and activating their creative nature, also known as finding Big Magic…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Alina Chan and Matt Ridley's Viral
Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (2021) explores the possible origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-authors Alina Chan and Matt Ridley examine both the lab leak and natural origin theories while making clear that more research is needed to prevent such occurrences from happening again. They provide a transparent and comprehensive account of the events that have taken...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Andy Stanley's Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets.
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1) Life's all about making choices, every day. We all have moments when we aren't sure what to do. Some of us make quick decisions, while others can never have enough information before making a decision. But, in the end, we are where we are as a result of our choices.
2) Your decisions, along with your responses to other people's actions,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Dave Rubin's Don't Burn This Book
Has the contemporary left abandoned the true values of liberalism? In Don't Burn This Book (2020), Dave Rubin examines the state of the political left in today's world and finds that it suffers from mob mentality and threatens our freedoms. Rubin offers a guide to a classical liberal approach to politics and life, based on his experiences and views of the world. Simultaneously,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Devora Zack's Networking for People Who Hate Networking
Typical networking books are aimed at extroverts who already are familiar with the concept and enjoy going out and making connections. These how-to books, however, tend to feel like gibberish to introverts who want nothing to do with networking. In Networking for People Who Hate Networking (2010), Devora Zack reaches out to introverts and outlines effective...
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Summary of Napoleon Hill's The Path to Personal Power, in 1908 Napoleon Hill purportedly met American industrialist Andrew Carnegie. In a series of interviews, Carnegie laid out his secrets to success and charged Hill with seeking further wisdom from other successful individuals including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Dr. Elmer Gates…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Duncan's Hero of Two Worlds
In Hero of Two Worlds (2021), Mike Duncan takes readers on a ride down history to discover the life of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat and general who became an American hero. In his historical biography, Duncan highlights the political events that traced Lafayette's heroic life and how he profoundly contributed to the evolution of French and American society...
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Summary of Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor is a gritty and compelling narrative that recounts what happened when four
United States Navy's Sea, Air, Land Teams (SEALs) fought against a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. Only one of them survived the ordeal.
Marcus Luttrell and the other members of his Navy SEAL team were sent to the mountains of the Hindu Kush between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were on a reconnaissance mission to locate and kill...
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Summary of Robert O'Neill's The Operator is Robert O'Neill's memoir about his service as a Navy SEAL from 1996 to 2012. O'Neill describes the years of grueling training, high-stakes missions, and dramatic rescues that led up to his team's top-secret raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart (2021) by Michelle Zauner is a memoir about her upbringing as a Korean American struggling with her identity and dealing with the untimely death of her mother from cancer.
H Mart is an Asian supermarket chain that provides Zauner and other transplanted Asian-Americans the tastes, smells, and products of their home countries and families. For Zauner, food was...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Laura Coleman's The Puma Years
In The Puma Years (2021), Laura Coleman chronicles how a trip to the Bolivian Amazon with the intention of taking a short vacation turned into a life-changing experience of self-discovery, bonding with wild animals, connecting to nature, and pushing her own boundaries.
Wayra, a foster puma in Sanctuary Ambue Ari, became her life's top priority, teaching her many lessons about herself...
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Summary of Johann Hari's Lost Connections explores the physical, psychological, and cultural factors that lead to depression, as well as the tactics communities can employ to overcome it. British journalist Johann Hari argues that while depression can have a biological cause, it's largely an involuntary reaction to the social ills that plague modern society…
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The unusual family of French Impressionist master Jacob Abraham Camille Pizzarro takes center stage in The Marriage of Opposites. Summary of Alice Hoffman's The Marriage of Opposites is set in the early to late 1800s, focusing on the artist and his equally strong-willed mother, Rachel Monsanto Pomié Petit Pizzarro.
Rachel longs for Paris although her grandparents long ago fled France for St. Thomas, an island in what is now the US Virgin Islands,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Thich Nhat Hanh's The Art of Communicating
In The Art of Communicating (2013), Thich Nhat Hanh explores the long path towards mastering self-communication, building a strong community, and confronting deeply engraved wounds. He highlights the importance of mindful awareness and details the fundamentals of a healthy, successful communication that builds personalities as well as societies.
The Art of Communicating...