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Scattered Minds - Book Summary

"The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Gabor Maté Category: Health & Nutrition

Apr 18, 202419 min

At Home - Book Summary

"A Short History of Private Life" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Bill Bryson Category: History

Apr 18, 202421 min

Born Liars - Book Summary

"Why We Can’t Live Without Deceit" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Ian Leslie Category: Psychology

Apr 18, 202428 min

Purity and Danger - Book Summary

"Investigations on the Human Obsession With Dirt and Cleanliness" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Mary Douglas Category: Religion & Spirituality

Apr 18, 202421 min

Napoleon the Great - Book Summary

"How Napoleon Conquered Europe and Changed the World" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Andrew Roberts Category: Biography & Memoir

Apr 18, 202447 min

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Book Summary

"How to Heal from Difficult, Rejecting, or Self-involved Parents" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Lindsay C. Gibson Category: Parenting

Apr 17, 202426 min

Big Magic - Book Summary

"Creative Living Beyond Fear" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Category: Creativity

Apr 17, 202423 min

Destiny Disrupted - Book Summary

"A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Tamim Ansary Category: History

Apr 17, 202437 min

On Saudi Arabia - Book Summary

"Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines – and Future" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Karen Elliott House Category: Economics

Apr 17, 202429 min

Out of Office - Book Summary

"The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Peterson Category: Corporate Culture

Apr 16, 202425 min

How Children Succeed - Book Summary

"Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Paul Tough Category: Education

Apr 16, 202432 min

Expecting Better - Book Summary

"Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Emily Oster Category: Parenting

Apr 16, 202431 min

Lawrence in Arabia - Book Summary

"War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Scott Anderson Category: Biography & Memoir

Apr 16, 202458 min

From Silk to Silicon - Book Summary

"The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Jeffrey E. Garten Category: Economics

Apr 16, 202425 min

Reasons to Stay Alive - Book Summary

"An optimistic memoir about depression and anxiety" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Matt Haig Category: Biography & Memoir

Apr 15, 202434 min

Liftoff - Book Summary

"Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Eric Berger Category: Biography & Memoir

Apr 15, 202431 min

Mindware - Book Summary

"Tools for Smart Thinking" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Richard E. Nisbett Category: Mindfulness & Happiness

Apr 15, 202418 min

Living Presence - Book Summary

"A Sufi Way to Mindfulness and the Essential Self" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Kabir Edmund Helminski Category: Mindfulness & Happiness

Apr 15, 202427 min

Cure - Book Summary

"A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Jo Marchant Category: Mindfulness & Happiness

Apr 15, 202437 min

The Refusal of Work - Book Summary

"The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: David Frayne Category: Corporate Culture

Apr 14, 202427 min

Loserthink - Book Summary

"How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Scott Adams Category: Psychology

Apr 14, 202422 min

The Light of Days - Book Summary

"The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Judy Batalion Category: History

Apr 14, 202440 min

Mindfulness - Book Summary

"An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Mark Williams and Danny Penman Category: Mindfulness & Happiness

Apr 14, 202428 min

How to Break Up with Your Phone - Book Summary

"The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life" Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Catherine Price Category: Personal Development

Apr 14, 202433 min

Anxiety at Work - Book Summary

"8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done" Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton with Anthony Gostick Category: Career & Success

Apr 13, 202428 min

The Last Safe Investment - Book Summary

"Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Michael Ellsberg and Bryan Franklin Category: Career & Success

Apr 13, 202429 min

Bored and Brilliant - Book Summary

"How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Manoush Zomorodi Category: Creativity

Apr 13, 202429 min

Furious Hours - Book Summary

"Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Casey Cep Category: Biography & Memoir

Apr 13, 202430 min

The Career Playbook - Book Summary

"Essential Advice for Today's Aspiring Young Professional" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: James M. Citrin Category: Career & Success

Apr 13, 202427 min

Stress Less, Accomplish More - Book Summary

"Meditation for Extraordinary Performance" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Emily Fletcher Category: Mindfulness & Happiness

Apr 12, 202427 min

Palestine - Book Summary

"A Four Thousand Year History" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Nur Masalha Category: History

Apr 12, 202439 min

The Ethics of Ambiguity - Book Summary

"A foundational text of existentialist philosophy" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Simone de Beauvoir Category: Philosophy

Apr 12, 202427 min

Walden - Book Summary

"Life in the Woods" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Henry David Thoreau Category: Biography & Memoir

Apr 12, 202429 min

Spiritual Partnership - Book Summary

"The Journey to Authentic Power" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Gary Zukav Category: Personal Development

Apr 12, 202426 min

Real Love - Book Summary

"The Art of Mindful Connection" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Sharon Salzberg Category: Mindfulness & Happiness

Apr 11, 202429 min

Beginners - Book Summary

"The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Tom Vanderbilt Category: Education

Apr 11, 202425 min

High Output Management - Book Summary

"Tips from the former chairman and CEO of Intel" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Andrew S. Grove Category: Career & Success

Apr 11, 202430 min

The Introverted Leader - Book Summary

"Building on your Quiet Strength" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Jennifer Kahnweiler Category: Management & Leadership

Apr 11, 202433 min

The Unwinding of the Miracle - Book Summary

"A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Julie Yip-Williams Category: Biography & Memoir

Apr 11, 202431 min

Buffett - Book Summary

"The Making of an American Capitalist" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Roger Lowenstein Category: Biography & Memoir

Apr 10, 202422 min

Smarter - Book Summary

"The New Science of Building Brain Power" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Dan Hurley Category: Personal Development

Apr 10, 202418 min

The Art of Rivalry - Book Summary

"Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Sebastian Smee Category: History

Apr 10, 202424 min

Brainstorm - Book Summary

"The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Daniel J. Siegel Category: Parenting

Apr 10, 202425 min

Do Pause - Book Summary

"You Are Not a To Do List" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Robert Poynton Category: Mindfulness & Happiness

Apr 9, 202426 min

The Personality Brokers - Book Summary

"The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Merve Emre Category: Education

Apr 9, 202423 min

Saving Capitalism - Book Summary

"For the Many, Not the Few" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Robert B. Reich Category: Economics

Apr 9, 202428 min

Reading People - Book Summary

"How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Anne Bogel Category: Psychology

Apr 9, 202425 min

The Longevity Project - Book Summary

"Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin Category: Health & Nutrition

Apr 9, 202424 min

Lovingkindness - Book Summary

"The Revolutionary Art of Happiness" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Sharon Salzberg Category: Mindfulness & Happiness

Apr 8, 202432 min

Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen - Book Summary

"The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Michelle Icard Category: Communication Skills

Apr 8, 202430 min