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Get the Summary of Leonard Mlodinow's “Subliminal” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of “The Drunkard's Walk” and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships...
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Get the Summary of Prem Rawat's Hear Yourself in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The cacophony of modern life can be deafening, leaving us feeling frazzled and uneasy. In this warm, wise book, Prem Rawat teaches us how to turn down the noise to "hear ourselves"-to listen to the subtle song of peace that sings inside each of us. Once we learn to truly "hear ourselves" and the voice of...
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Get the Summary of Nick Trenton's Stop Overthinking in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Stop Overthinking is a book that understands where you've been through,the exhausting situation you've put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire...
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#1 The concept of intelligence is based on the traditional IQ test, which was invented by Alfred Binet to measure, objectively, comprehension, reasoning, and judgment. However, contemporary research shows that intelligence is not fixed at birth and can be developed throughout life.
#2 The brain is much more flexible and multidimensional than any supercomputer. It can...
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#1 Change causes fear, and fear causes panic. You can either resist change and do nothing, or you can make a rash decision and hope it solves everything. Neither option tends to work out well.
#2 If a panic happens, do something. Don't do nothing. Change causes fear, and fear causes panic. You can either resist change and do nothing, or you can make a rash decision and...
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Book Preview: #1 The gap is the space between where you are and where you want to be. Companies that close the gaps in business best, win.
#2 We all have gaps in life, between where we are and where we want to be. These gaps are human nature. Without them, we would have no hopes, dreams, or aspirations. But while there's nothing more human than dreaming of leaping a gap, there are...
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Get the Summary of Ron Lieber's The Price You Pay for College in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Meanwhile, many families of freshmen attending selective private colleges will spend triple - over $300,000. With the same passion, smarts, and...
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Book Preview: #1 The importance of fathers is a love-hate relationship in our feminine-primary social order. On the one hand, many people lament the lack of fathers' involvement in their kids' lives, especially boys' lives. On the other hand, many people hate the buffoon, bumbling Dad who is always out of touch with the mainstream.
#2 When it comes to Father's Day, most men receive...
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Book Preview: #1 I received a call from CBS's The Doctors, a long-running medical talk show produced by Dr. Phil. They wanted to help Casey, a sixteen-year-old with chronic abdominal pain so severe that it would regularly cause him to pass out.
#2 I was in my mid-twenties and life was good. I was in graduate school for psychotherapy at USC. I was an outgoing, active guy. But then...
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Get the Summary of Daniel Sloss' Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Though I've read and enjoyed some summaries on self-help books, I've not come across one so detailed and straightforward as this summary. It is so engaging and carefully captures the central idea in the book Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die. Written intelligently, this book gives straightforward...
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Book Preview: #1 I am a psychologist who has spent much of his career studying psychotherapy. My book, Client-Centered Therapy, is about the suffering and the hope, the anxiety and the satisfaction, that fills each therapist's counseling room. It is about the unique relationship each therapist forms with each client, and the common elements that they all share.
#2 I was raised in...
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#1 Love is the expression of productiveness, which implies care, respect, responsibility, and knowledge. It is a striving towards growth and happiness of the loved person rooted in one's own capacity to love.
#2 Love is the bridge between our human experience and our spiritual experience. It is experienced as emanating from the heart. As we get to the source of...
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Book Preview: #1 The 52 Small Changes Program is designed to help you make small yet meaningful changes that will ultimately lead to a happier, healthier lifestyle. By the end of a year, you'll have mastered 52 changes that will ultimately lead to a happier, healthier you.
#2 A healthy lifestyle requires more than just eating a healthy diet and being active. It requires that you address...
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Book Preview: #1 I learned about the slave trade that brought my ancestors to America, and I grew up hearing about the Atlantic Ocean as a symbol of sorrow, while the Negro spirituals I sang as a child were a symbol of freedom and peace.
#2 I believe that finding peace is important because, more and more, I feel the tension rising. We are thirsty for the river and hungry for the fruit...
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Book Preview: #1 Energy healing is the process of changing the energetic vibration of something to facilitate balance. It is a broad term that refers to techniques and practices that change the energetic vibration of something to facilitate balance.
#2 Energy healing treats you as an interdependent energetic system comprising the physical and etheric. It seeks to balance physical...
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Book Preview: #1 Intimacy is supposed to be easy, but it's not. It's often affected by trauma, religion, and bodies that age and change. Everything we have ever been through has been added to the mix.
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#1 The first step out of victimhood is to embrace what's happening with a gentle embrace. When you stop fighting and resisting, you have more energy and imagination available to figure out what's happening now and where you want to go next.
#2 When you're in love with yourself, you don't feel lonely. When you're alone, you don't mean lonely. You'll give yourself...
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Book Preview: #1 The two rules of Don't be a Dick are: Don't be a dick and If it's not yours, don't touch it. This rule is so well known that everyone understands what it means immediately. We know what dickitude looks like in all its shapes and forms.
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Get the Summary of Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush's Walking Each Other Home in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Walking Each Other Home" by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush is a contemplative exploration of death, love, and the human experience. As Mirabai Bush arrives in Maui to discuss the profound subject of death with Ram Dass, they reflect on the impact of acknowledging mortality on living fully. Ram Dass shares his practice...
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#1 Someone with a narcissist in their life, whether as a parent or other family member, partner, friend, or other important person, will always feel violated.
#2 The idea that everyone is entitled to the same rights and freedoms goes against the narcissist's personal belief system. For them, the world is a rigid and simplistic hierarchy of winners and losers, strong...
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