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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 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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Get the Summary of Jennifer Taitz PsyD's Stress Resets in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Stress Resets" by Jennifer Taitz PsyD delves into the nature of stress and its distinction from anxiety, emphasizing the importance of perception in managing stress. The book explores the concept that stress can be beneficial when viewed as a manageable challenge, highlighting research that suggests a positive stress mindset...
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Get the Summary of Carla Naumburg's How to Stop Losing Your Sht with Your Kids in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Carla Naumburg's book, "How to Stop Losing Your Sht with Your Kids," addresses the common issue of parental outbursts, or FARTs (Feelings, Automatic, Reactive, Toxic), which are often unconscious and disproportionate reactions to triggers. These outbursts can damage the parent-child relationship, leading...
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#1 To make the most of your mental clarity, schedule a time to check your email when you're not at your peak. Your projects and tasks should take precedence when you're most focused. By making this one simple change and properly utilizing your prime time, you can save yourself countless hours each week.
#2 You should have a system for organizing essential and critical...
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Get the Summary of Thibaut Meurisse & Kerry j Donovan's Master Your Focus in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Master Your Focus" by Thibaut Meurisse & Kerry j Donovan is a comprehensive guide on harnessing the power of focus to enhance productivity and achieve personal goals. The book delves into the concept of focus as a multifaceted tool that can manipulate our perception of time and significantly increase productivity...
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Get the Summary of Glennon Doyle Melton's Carry On, Warrior in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Glennon Doyle's hilarious and poignant reflections on our universal (yet often secret) experiences have inspired a social movement by reminding women that they're not alone. In Carry On, Warrior, she shares her personal story in moving, refreshing, and laugh-out-loud new essays and some of the best-loved material from...
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Get the Summary of Alex Soojung-Kim Pang's Rest in 20 minutes.
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Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done-but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better the outcome....
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#1 There are only three things that humans can do: think, feel, and act. We are constantly thinking, feeling, and acting, and we must learn how to direct and control our responses to those who push our buttons.
#2 There are four main screwball feelings: excessive anxiety, anger/defensiveness, depression/burnout, and guilt. If you get excessively anxious, you will not...
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Get the Summary of Jon Gordon's The Power of a Positive Team in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great by Jon Gordon: Conversation Starters Positivity coach Jon Gordon talks to many of the most outstanding teams in history and reveals how good teamwork happens and how this is related to the team's success....
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Get the Summary of Ethan M. Rasiel's The McKinsey Way in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It's been called "a breeding ground for gurus." McKinsey & Company is the gold-standard consulting firm whose alumni include titans such as "In Search of Excellence" author Tom Peters, Harvey Golub of American Express, and Japan's Kenichi Ohmae.
When Fortune 100 corporations are stymied, it's the...
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Get the Summary of John P. Kotter's Leading Change in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: John Kotter's now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process every organization must go through to achieve its goals, and by identifying where and how even top performers derail...
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Get the Summary of David McRaney's How Minds Change in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW MINDS CHANGE is a book about the...
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#1 Product-market fit is the process of determining if a product is well-suited for its market. It is one of the most important Lean Startup principles, and this playbook will teach you how to achieve it.
#2 Product-market fit is when your product creates significant customer value. It is achieved when your product meets real customer needs and does so in a way that...
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#1 The illusion of explanatory depth is the name given to the fact that people usually overestimate their understanding of how things work. It is based on the fact that people usually have little to say when asked to explain how a zipper works.
#2 The illusion of explanatory depth is when people believe they understand something when they really don't. It can be seen...
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#1 The path to mimicry, which is to attract people to your brand, seems to lead to dead ends. While it is easy to explain why Coke has achieved brand loyalty after over 100 years of consumer advertising and marketing support, it is difficult to explain how Starbucks has achieved similar consumer loyalty without any advertising.
#2 The seven pieces of primal code that...
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#1 The media frenzy surrounding the discovery of organic molecules on a Martian meteorite in 1996 was a classic example of people trying to make something appear definite when in fact it isn't.
#2 Uncertainty is the enemy of certainty. You'll learn how our obsession with certainty leads us astray and why all progress takes place in uncertain conditions. You'll learn...
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#1 I spent my boyhood in rural western Denmark, in a little town in the middle of nowhere. I was captain of one of Denmark's best youth teams, but I ended up injured before my career could even begin. I spent my career as a coach helping establish Scandinavia's first football academy.
#2 The Danish defender Simon Kjaer was sold to Palermo in Italy when he was just eighteen...
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#1 When I was hired as the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons in 2008, they had never had back-to-back winning seasons. The team was struggling with consistency and sustainability. I knew the first step I needed to take was to create a winning culture in which every member could thrive and excel.
#2 I had to build the Falcons' culture from the bottom up. I made...
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#1 The same can be said for all of our senses. We often listen but don't really hear, touch without really feeling, and look without really seeing. To illustrate this point, I assigned a similar project to students in one of my courses. They were asked to take a silent walk for an hour, and to capture all they heard and saw.
#2 Your first step toward developing a passion...
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