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Summary of Brendon Burchard's High Performance Habits is a self-help book by motivational guru Brendon Burchard. Addressing high achievers who want to maximize their professional performance and live a meaningful life, Burchard boils success down to six high-performance habits...
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Summary of Jeff Sutherland's Scrum describes how Scrum, a project management framework, can help teams accomplish more work in less time for less money. By abandoning detailed long-term plans in favor of flexible processes, teams will see the quality and volume of their work skyrocket by up to 800 percent…
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Summary of Bandy X. Lee's The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump is a collection of essays by medical professionals and others who argue that Donald Trump is unfit to be president. Together they assert that medical professionals have a duty to warn the public of a president's mental unfitness…
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Summary of Ray Dalio's Principles describes core practices he developed during his career as an investor. Dalio believes that by applying these principles to their lives, readers can improve their relationships, enhance group decision making, and more easily adapt to changing circumstances.
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Summary of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled is a self-help text that focuses on personal development. The author, who was a psychiatrist with many years of clinical practice, draws on the psychoanalytic tradition to explore four major concepts: discipline, love, religion, and grace…
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Summary of Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman traces Wonder Woman's origins to the women's movements of the early twentieth century and connects the character's early portrayals to the life, work, and feminist beliefs of creator William Moulton Marston.
Marston was born in 1893…
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Summary of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile introduces and explains hormesis, or the way that some systems benefit from the chaos and stress that normally would destroy fragile things.
Any cohesive system of cooperators or processes composed of smaller participating actors, from the human body to the stock market, can be fragile, robust, or antifragile…
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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."
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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 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...
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Summary of Susan Peirce Thompson's Bright Line Eating offers a weight-loss and maintenance strategy that relies on strict dietary eliminations instead of eating in moderation. By changing their habits, dieters can lose weight and be released from the powerful grip of foods loaded with sugar and flour.
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Summary of Brian L. Weiss's Many Lives, Many Masters describes his treatment of a young woman to show how medical science has only begun to comprehend the mysteries of human existence.
In 1980, Weiss began to see Catherine, a 27-year-old lab technician employed by the hospital where he practiced, for debilitating fears that included drowning, choking, and the dark…
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Summary of Eric Metaxas's If You Can Keep It issues a call for Americans to remember the tenets upon which their country was founded and to save the United States from losing its prominence in the world. Approaching the history of the United States from a religious standpoint, Metaxas revisits early moments in American history that have defined the country and praises the work of the framers of the Constitution.