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Get the Summary of Ryan Holiday's Discipline Is Destiny in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Discipline Is Destiny" by Ryan Holiday explores the pivotal role of discipline in achieving greatness and self-mastery. The book draws on historical figures like Lou Gehrig, whose consistent performance and modest lifestyle exemplified discipline, and Toni Morrison, who maintained a disciplined writing routine amidst challenges....
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#1 Your life is made up of many lifetimes, lived consecutively. You experience cruelty and kindness from both sides. The modern era is rare, because it is the only time in your life when you experience such dramatic population growth.
#2 The idea of longtermism is that positively influencing the longterm future is a key moral priority of our time. It is about taking...
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Book Preview: #1 Some people may be better at listening to their bodies and getting good judgments than others. The best financial traders are not necessarily the most intelligent, but rather those who are the most sensitive to interoceptive signals.
#2 Interoception is the awareness of the inner state of the body. It is generated in places all over the body, and then travels via...
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Get the Summary of Edward Snowden's Permanent Record in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented...
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#1 Rightness is a second-order pleasure, meaning that it is not very enjoyable itself, but it is the basis for many other enjoyable experiences. It is essential for our survival, and it gives us a sense of being smart, competent, and in tune with our environment.
#2 We as a culture tend to view error as rare and bizarre. We regard it as a sign of intellectual inferiority,...
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Book Preview: #1 The Ship of Theseus is a classic philosophical problem. It asks whether a certain ship, which was damaged and replaced its wooden parts one by one, is the same ship as the original. It is not a scientific question, but it is not entirely without answer.
#2 The subject matter of philosophy is extremely broad. It ranges from general questions about what exists and...
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#1 The place-names on the academic maps of philosophy tend to change. In the Middle Ages, for example, philosophy covered practically every branch of theoretical knowledge that did not come under theology.
#2 The history of philosophy is the history of a sharply inquisitive cast of mind. It is not a defined discipline, but rather a collection of different inquiries that...
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#1 It is a principle of all play, whether it be finite or infinite, that whoever plays, plays freely. Whoever must play, cannot play.
#2 It is essential for a finite game to have a definitive beginning and end. Because players cannot select themselves for play, there is never a time when they cannot be removed from the game. The license never belongs to the licensed,...
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#1 The question What is philosophy. is one of the most controversial and debated in the field of philosophy. It is a simple but fundamental proposition that the human being is a finite being who is aware of his limits. He cannot prevent himself from thinking about this state of affairs, which is disturbing and absurd.
#2 The word salvation is defined first and...
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#1 Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was the father of existentialism. He was born in Copenhagen in 1813. He entered the University of Copenhagen in 1830, but it took him more than a decade to finish his degree. He passed his exams in 1840 and a year later completed his dissertation, On the Concept of Irony: With Constant Reference to Socrates.
#2 Kierkegaard wrote about the...
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#1 I am the eternal No-thingness that contains within itself the capacity to be all things. I am the law of being and there is no law beside me. I am that I am.
#2 The Bible is a great psychological drama that reveals the consciousness of man. When man understands that his awareness of being is God, he will realize that his unconditioned awareness of being is greater...
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#1 The five elements play a major role in Taoist practices. They are symbolized as water, wood, fire, earth, and metal or air. When we make contact with these forces and learn to integrate them within our own energy field, we become connected to the entire universe.
#2 The universe is a spinning system. Everything around us spins, and we must establish ourselves in the...
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Book Preview: #1 The world is full of jerks, and we're all going to encounter them. If we don't like something, we'll be unhappy when we encounter it. So we might as well get used to it and not be jerks ourselves.
#2 Insults are the main reason why someone gets offended, even though the insulter isn't always ill-willed or even aware of saying something offensive. There is a difference...
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#1 I met Kathie Lee Gifford in 2007, and she helped me change my life. She joined the fourth hour of Today, and what followed was an 11-year professional and personal relationship I treasure.
#2 Scars are a sign of healing, and they are the thing that cuts through the BS about what matters in life and who we want to share it with. Don't you think it's our scars that...
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Book Preview:#1 The study of reasons for opinions is at the center of philosophy. However, many other disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, statistics, biology, literature, geography and history, seek the same thing.
#2 Continental philosophy is more concerned with broad concepts, while analytic philosophy is more concerned with precision and clarity.
#3 Philosophy is a discipline...
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Book Preview: #1 American politics offers the comforting illusion of stability. The Democratic and Republican parties have dominated elections since 1864, and it is easy to assume that our present is a rough match for our past, with the same complaints about politics today mirroring the complaints of past generations.
#2 Political parties are supposed to be the shortcuts that allow...
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Book Preview: #1 This book is for people who are ready to do the work, people who want to create change in the world by activating change within themselves first. It is a resource that helps you take responsibility for dismantling the way that this system manifests, both within yourself and within your community.
#2 The work is not about those out there, but about you - just you....
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#1 The rise of global capitalism and its associated ideologies, including neoliberalism, has created a culture of individualism that is difficult to resist. It is important to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle.
#2 The Black...
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#1 The house on the street is a prime example of how architecture can contribute to our happiness. It has endured a lot over the years, but it still stands strong and dignified. It has provided not only physical but also psychological sanctuary.
#2 The world's most intelligent people have disdained any interest in decoration and design, equating contentment with discarnate...
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#1 The humanist belief in progress is a secular version of the Christian faith that humans are different from all other animals. In reality, there is nothing that can be called progress.
#2 The idea that humanity can shape its future assumes that humans are exempt from the truth that species are only governed by the same laws as other animals. If the human species is...
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