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Summary of Ian Caldwell's The Fifth Gospel is a literary thriller that takes place in 2004 at the Vatican, the chief residence of the Catholic Pope in Italy. The novel follows the aftermath of Vatican museum curator, Ugolino Nogara's, murder.
Brothers, Alex and Simon Andreou, are both priests. Alex is a Greek Orthodox priest and Simon is a Roman Catholic priest as well as Vatican diplomat in the Secretariat. Their opposing religious affiliations place...
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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...
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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...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Anne Lamott's Dusk, Night, Dawn.
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1) Our soul is like a lighthouse where we can climb up and see the vast ocean of the universe, and observe anything that passes through it. It's the purest expression of ourselves and of being alive, that no one could wreck.
2) The soul does get damaged throughout life. Circumstances and hardships may wear and tear it, but it is never mortally damaged. It...
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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…
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Summary of Eric Goodman's True to Form is a self-help book designed to show people, especially those experiencing muscle and joint pain, how easy it is to return the body to its natural state of health and well being. Dr. Goodman is a chiropractor and personal trainer who experienced debilitating pain and found a surgery-free method for treating it using an extremely simple movement methodology. Foundation Training, his protocol, gives people the...
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Summary of Richard P. Feynman's Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is an unconventional memoir by a decidedly unconventional theoretical physicist. Feynman was a brilliant and eccentric thinker who was present for some of the key scientific developments of the twentieth century.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Dave Asprey's Fast This Way.
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1) Food industries convince you that hunger and cravings are the same thing, and that you need to satisfy your cravings or else you will suffer. This makes you a prisoner of food.
2) You can free yourself from food through fasting. Educating yourself on styles of fasting, and eventually applying them, can lead you to a stronger, healthier physical and psychological...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Julia Galef's The Scout Mindset.
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1) Directionally motivated reasoning, also known as motivated reasoning, is an aspect of human psychology where our unconscious motives direct us to certain conclusions. It is not objective, and instead involves us framing information to fit whatever conclusions we have already made.
2) One common example of motivated reasoning is how we use news stories...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild
Chris McCandless is a name that resonates with those looking to find the answers to everyday life in the boundless beauty and mystique of nature. And yet, his unfortunate death at age 24 proves that nature can never fully grant you everything you want.
Jon Krakauer looks into the strange yet inspiring existence of McCandless in Into the Wild (1996), from his comfortable, upper middle-class...
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Summary of Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund's Factfulness is a work of nonfiction that systematically debunks common misunderstandings about the world. The sweeping scope of human history is, by and large, a story of incremental progress, but most people fail to see it that way…
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Summary of Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable is Kevin Kelly's in-depth exploration of the imminent changes on the technological horizon that will ultimately impact all of humanity.
Inevitability, in this context, is defined as a pattern that is unquestionably trending forward due to the ways in which technological developments favor certain functions and behaviors.
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Summary of Chris Voss & Tahl Raz's Never Split the Difference is a guide to using hostage negotiation techniques in business and personal negotiations.
Modern negotiation strategies taught in business school usually center on classic texts that describe negotiation without factoring in emotions or irrational behavior. In reality, all negotiations involve emotional factors and illogical reactions. And in hostage scenarios, "splitting the difference"...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Brad Stulberg's The Practice of Groundedness
Success frequently comes at a cost. A fixation on outward performance can cause anxiety, restlessness, strained relationships, tiredness, and even substance abuse. Riding the high of a few successes can keep you going for only so long. The always-on, never-enough hustle mentality eventually takes its toll.
In The Practice of Groundedness (2021), Brad Stulberg presents...
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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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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 Neal Barnard's Your Body in Balance
The Westernized diet has spread all across the world, bringing along acne, diabetes, infertility, and cancer. It is time we change our diets for the better.
Neal Barnard's Your Body in Balance explains how the typical meat-reliant, processed food diet is affecting our health. While there are always new medications to help treat physical and emotional ailments, there is growing...