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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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Book Preview: #1 Keri was already aware of what was making her sick: chemicals. She had figured out that she had at least one dirty gene, which was causing her to have a difficult time detoxing.
#2 The MTHFR gene is crucial to the body's most important biological process, methylation. As a result, a dirty MTHFR creates not only anxiety and depression, but a host of other symptoms,...
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Get the Summary of Keith J. Cunningham's The Road Less Stupid in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The Road Less Stupid (2017) is a treasure trove of wisdom for business leaders, focusing on the critical importance of thoughtful decisions. Business expert Keith J. Cunningham offers a guide for making intelligent decisions to avoid unnecessary losses. His reflective practice, which he calls Thinking Time, enhances...
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Get the Summary of Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson's No-Drama Discipline in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The pioneering experts behind the bestselling The Whole-Brain Child, Tina Payne Bryson and Daniel J. Siegel, the New York Times bestselling author of Brainstorm, now explore the ultimate child-raising challenge: discipline. Highlighting the fascinating link between a child's...
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Book Preview: The 2020 presidential election was one of the most divisive in American history. While Joe Biden came out victorious, the extremely small margin of victory demonstrated the large portion of Americans who wanted to return to conservative values.
Newt Gingrich is one of those people, and as he explains in Beyond Biden, the conservative electoral base has nothing to fear-following...
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Get the Summary of Rob Copeland's The Fund in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Fund is a thrilling, stranger-than-fiction journey into a rarefied world of wealth and power. It offers an unflinching look at the pain so often caused by the "radical transparency" Dalio has described as a core tenet of his recipe for business success and a meaningful life. Drawing on hundreds of interviews...
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#1 Grief is like fear. It feels like being afraid, but for different reasons. It is difficult to take in what others say, and it is hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me.
#2 Marriage has done wonders for me. I can never again believe that religion is manufactured out of our unconscious, starved desires and is a...
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Book Preview: #1 Uric acid is a compound that comes from only three sources: fructose, alcohol, and purines. It is strongly related to being overweight or obese, as well as the risk of cardiovascular problems and hypertension.
#2 The laws of nature, such as the effects of gravity, the principles of time and space, and the importance of food and water to human survival, were established...
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#1 The best CEOs understand that uncertainty favors the bold, and they embrace it by constantly looking for and acting on opportunities that bend the curve of history.
#2 The most successful CEOs reframed what winning meant for their companies. They didn't just raise aspiration levels, they changed the definition of success.
#3 The best CEOs find and amplify intersections...
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Get the Summary of Will Wise and Chad Littlefield's Ask Powerful Questions in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Powerful questions can be used everywhere: from the board room to the city park, the dinner table to the grocery store. If you want to connect with employees at a team building retreat, hone your leadership skills as a new boss, improve the company culture where you work...this...
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Get the Summary of Jenara Nerenberg's Divergent Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted mother, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her "symptoms"-only ever labeled as anxiety-were considered autistic and ADHD. Being a journalist, she dove into the research and uncovered neurodiversity-a framework...
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Get the Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"-the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people...
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Get the Summary of 50 Cent and Robert Greene's The 50th Law in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a "bible" for success in life and work, based on a single principle: fear nothing.
With intimate stories from 50 Cent's life on...
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Get the Summary of Lundy Bancroft's Why Does He Do That? In 20 minutes.
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Original book introduction: He says he loves you. So...why does he do that? You've asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men--and to change your life. In this groundbreaking book, a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men shows...
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Book Preview: #1 Your brain is focused on survival, and it is not easy being a survivor. You have inherited a brain that is focused on survival, and it is not easy being a survivor.
#2 The four happy chemicals are dopamine, endorphin, oxytocin, and serotonin. They are triggered when your brain sees something that is good for your survival, and they turn off when something bad crosses...
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Get the Summary of Steven Petrow's Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The fact is, we don't want to age the way previous generations did. "Old people" hoard. They bore relatives-and strangers alike-with tales of their aches and pains. They insist on driving long after they've become a danger to others (and themselves). They eat dinner at 4pm. They...
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Get the Summary of Johann Hari's “Stolen Focus” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only 65 seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts...
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Get the Summary of Katherine Clarke's Billionaires' Row in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Billionaires' Row, Katherine Clarke reveals the captivating story of how, in just a few years, the ruthless real-estate impresarios behind these "supertalls" lining 57th Street turned what was once a run-down strip of Midtown into the most exclusive street on Earth, as legendary Trump-era veterans...
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Get the Summary of Cal Newport's Slow Productivity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport explores the concept of productivity, particularly in knowledge work, where traditional metrics are ill-suited. The book challenges the 20th-century mindset that equates longer hours with better outcomes, highlighting the pitfalls of pseudo-productivity, which leads to stress and burnout. Newport...
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Get the Summary of Erin Werley's One Truth One Law in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "One Truth One Law" by Erin Werley is a spiritual exploration of the concept that every individual is an extension of a singular divine consciousness, referred to as "I Am" or God. The book delves into the idea that the physical universe originated from the thoughts of this consciousness and that every person has the inherent ability...