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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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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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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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#1 Sri Ramana defined the Self as being-consciousness-bliss, which is a single immanent reality that is simultaneously the source, the substance, and the real nature of everything that exists. He also referred to it as God, the Heart, and Brahman.
#2 The Self is the underlying reality that supports the appearance of the other three temporary states. It is one's real...
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Book Preview: #1 The public space is increasingly dominated by a loose assortment of poorly informed people, many of them autodidacts who are disdainful of formal education and dismissive of experience. They are the explainers who are more than happy to enlighten the rest of us about everything from the history of imperialism to the dangers of vaccines.
#2 We cannot function without...
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Book Preview: #1 I was extremely nervous and excited to go to a predominantly white school. I struggled to make new friends because I was always thinking about how I looked, spoke, and acted.
#2 I was not alone in my struggle to understand my new classmates. I was extremely nervous about going to school, because I was not one of the popular girls, and I was sure that they would make...
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Book Preview: #1 I was born in the late 1940s, and raised in a lower middle-class household. My father was a trade unionist and a member of the Labour Party, who always wondered whether he had, in becoming a teacher in a primary school, betrayed his working-class origins.
#2 I had to learn how to live with my father, who was a socialist. I understood from him just how deeply class...
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Book Preview: #1 If you want to live high on the hog, restaurants are easy targets. Many of these establishments have a buffet or free snacks served as a come-on to drink more mindless alcohol. If you are really hungry, you can go into a self-service cafeteria and finish the meal of someone who left a lot on the plate.
#2 You can get great food at weddings, bar mitzvahs, testimonials,...
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#1 The most basic definition of consciousness is that given by the philosopher Thomas Nagel in his famous essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat.: The essence of consciousness is that it is experience itself.
#2 Consciousness is what we are referring to when we talk about experience in its most basic form. It is like something to be you in this moment, and it is like something...
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#1 Mark Twain was a famous writer who was obsessed with coincidence. In 1858, he had a dream in which his brother was lying in a metal burial case, which was exactly how his brother died. He could not bring himself to publish the story, as he was afraid the public would treat it as a joke.
#2 The mental telegraphy metaphor points to the cutting-edge technology of the...
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#1 The Encheiridion is a selection from Epictetus's speeches that are most timely and essential to philosophy. It was originally written by Arrian, a Platonist philosopher, and was adapted and paraphrased by Christians in the Middle Ages.
#2 The transmission of Epictetus's work is free from serious contamination and scribal error for the most part. My translation of...
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#1 The first part of the book will focus on the use of reason in religion and science. In these and other domains, there is an ineliminable role of judgement, but that does not mean we should be skeptical about reason and rationality.
#2 The debate between God and science is another example of how theism and atheism rarely change their minds. The currency of philosophy...
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Book Preview: #1 In 1977, a young woman from Hyesan traveled to Pyongyang to visit her brother. She was invited to join the officers in playing games to pass the time, and she sang a song for the passengers. She was taken with the officer's military bearing and self-assurance.
#2 My mother was in love with my father, and they began writing to each other every week. One night, six...
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#1 The Bronze Age is characterized by the affirmation of wild and materially inclined virility. Genuine authority no longer exists in this age, only power affirmed by means of force. The Age of Iron or Dark Cycle is ruled by economic power.
#2 The world axis corresponds to the heart axis in man. The person who performs his duties in line with the values of Tradition...
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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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#1 All that could ever be known is experience, and all experience is known through the medium of mind. Thus, the first imperative of any mind that wishes to know the nature of reality is to investigate and know the reality of its own mind.
#2 The most profound knowledge that the mind can attain is its own essential nature. The mind's recognition of its own essential...
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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 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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Book Preview: #1 Faith is the ability to believe in the authority of a divine plan, even when society and history are against you. We as a nation believed in inherent inequality, but we knew that it was not real, and we knew people would even kill to maintain that belief.
#2 We, as African Americans, had experienced the equality of all humankind first-hand, and we knew that it was...
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