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Get the Summary of Logan Ury's How to Not Die Alone in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Have you ever looked around and wondered, "Why has everyone found love except me?" You're not the only one. Great relationships don't just appear in our lives- they're the culmination of a series of decisions, including whom to date, how to end it with the wrong person, and when to commit to the right...
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Get the Summary of Dan Ariely's Misbelief in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Misbelief" by Dan Ariely explores the complex phenomenon of how individuals and societies come to embrace false beliefs, often leading to serious consequences. The book examines the spread of misinformation and its impact on communities, highlighting historical precedents and the intricate webs of conspiracy theories that interlock to...
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Get the Summary of Scott Allan's ‘Do the Hard Things First’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: ‘Do the Hard Things First’ is structured to save you time, increase mental energy, and teach you to think from a mindset built with confidence by removing fear. You'll learn how to focus in on your #1 tasks for the day, eliminate overwhelm, and become the best version of yourself in...
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Get the Summary of Peter Hollins's The Science of Self-Learning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Science of Self-Learning focuses not only on learning, but what it means to direct your own learning. Anyone can read a book, but what about more? You will learn to deconstruct a topic and then construct your own syllabus and plan. Gathering information, initial research, having a dialogue...
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Book Preview: #1 The Enneagram is an ancient personality system made up of nine different personality Types. It is similar to other personality systems out there, like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or StrengthsFinder, in that it has specific Types with a list of traits and behaviors.
#2 The Enneagram is a personality test that groups people into nine different types, based on the...
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#1 I have tried to understand what humans are by immersing myself in the sensations, places, and ideas that characterised the first two periods of human history: the early upper Palaeolithic, when humans were wanderers intimately connected to lots of land and many species, and the Neolithic, when humans settled down and began to own things.
#2 The last period is the...
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#1 A friend of mine named Muriel worked at a large technology company. She was in a middle-management position, which large technology companies can't seem to get enough of. She was well-respected because she seemed to be selfless and often took the burden of the entire office on her shoulders. But she turned that obsession into subconscious obedience.
#2 The opposite...
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#1 The human mind is made up of a tapestry of genetics, biology, and relationships that allow us to be interwoven into the superorganisms we call families, tribes, and cultures. Our deep evolutionary history accounts for the profound connections among our bodies, minds, and the nature and quality of our relationships.
#2 Our brains have multiple parallel tracks...
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#1 We learn by repetition. Something we do enough times gets its own neuronal pathways in the brain. Each neuron learns to connect and fire with the next one down, and the behavior gets set. We wouldn't be able to enjoy movies without this process.
#2 We are the only machine that can program itself. We are meta-programmable and can set deliberately designed, automated...
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#1 The similarities between Western psychotherapy and Eastern ways of life are that they both focus on changing the consciousness of individuals, and that the normal state of consciousness in our culture is the breeding ground of mental disease.
#2 The idea of stuff is based on the experience of coming to a limit where our senses or instruments are not fine enough to...
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Book Preview: #1 We are often the last people to know what is going on inside us. We suffer because there is no easy way to introspection. We are not a fixed destination, but an eternally mobile, unfocused, and vaporous specter.
#2 Emotional skepticism is the recognition that our own minds can be faulty and misleading. It is the first step towards emotional maturity, which involves...
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#1 I have to get dressed. I take out a jumper and a white shirt, and from the dresser I get white socks and white underwear and a white undershirt, and I get my favorite saddle shoes. I suit up completely. I must be very quiet or my parents will hear.
#2 I would pace up and down the hall, getting more and more anxious until I wiggled free and began to run around the...
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Get the Summary of Damon Centola's Change in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from best-selling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world, in which "influencers" are king, "sticky" ideas "go viral", and good behavior is "nudged" forward. The problem is that the world they describe is a world where information spreads, but beliefs...
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#1 You should be able to: Navigate uncertain situations.-> You should be able to navigate uncertain situations. Your skills aren't as important as your attributes. What matters more are your attributes.
#2 Our attributes, which are wired into our internal circuitry, drive our behavior. They are largely invisible and often taken for granted. But they are extremely important....
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#1 Thelma was in love with her therapist, and she told me so in the first session. She handed me two old photos of a young beautiful dancer and a 60-year-old stolid woman. Thelma had not tended to her appearance in years.
#2 I had difficulty imagining the shabby old woman having an affair with her therapist, but I kept my opinions to myself. Thelma raved about her therapist,...
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#1 The narcissist both appeals and appalls. He may look like a modern-day Sir Lancelot, replete with the most swaggering charm, but he is also a master of illusion. His arrogance, condescension, and lack of empathy lead to frustrating interpersonal encounters and chronically difficult long-term relationships.
#2 The majority of narcissists are male, so I'll primarily...
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#1 The kleśa of being a personality, or individuality, is the result of the urge to divide and discriminate. It is a natural instinctive form in which libido first appears out of the unconscious. According to tantric teaching, there is an urge to produce a personality, something that is centered and divided from other beings.
#2 The instinct of individuation is found everywhere in...
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#1 At the highest level, we have a person who has spent countless hours training in a specific skill. While education is necessary, no one is a surgeon without having conducted thousands of hours of practice and repetition.
#2 The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive...
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Book Preview: #1 The study of psychological trauma is to come face to face with human vulnerability in the natural world, and with the capacity for evil in human nature. To study psychological trauma means to bear witness to horrible events, and when the events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator.
#2 The study of psychological...
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#1 The use of dream-analysis in psychotherapy is still a debated issue. Many practitioners find it indispensable in the treatment of neuroses, while others dispute the value of dream-analysis and believe that dreams are a negligible by-product of the psyche.
#2 Dreams can be used to reveal the unconscious causes of a neurosis. The Freudian answer is that dreams often...
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