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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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#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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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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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 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 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 Pete Walker's Complex PTSD in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd.
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Book Preview: #1 The idea of pre-birth planning is startling, but it can also be extremely beneficial. It suggests that you plan out your life challenges before you are born, and that you do so to facilitate your personal growth and the acquisition of wisdom.
#2 The stories in this book are full of wisdom that can be applied to your life. The chapters that discuss the stories' metaphysical...
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Book Preview: #1 Perfectionism can be defined as the belief that if you don't do everything perfectly, you shouldn't do anything at all. This type of perfectionism reduces the number of situations in which a person will take action.
#2 Perfectionism by quantity means not being satisfied with an action if it falls below a number threshold. People seem to think of perfectionism mostly...
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Book Preview: #1 Toxic positivity is the belief that everything is great, and you can't imagine anything ever being worse. It has now entered the building.
#2 Toxic positivity is the idea that you'll have more time off now, and while things could be worse, you'll likely learn some lessons from the experience. However, you're not there yet. You're still worried and upset.
#3 Positive...
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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 Anger is a signal that something is wrong, and it is up to us to listen to it. We have long been discouraged from the awareness and expression of anger, and this has led to the Taboo of Anger against women.
#2 We all have a right to everything we feel, and our anger is no exception. But there are questions we can ask ourselves to help us understand our anger: What...
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Book Preview: #1 I was always afraid of science, and that's why I was fat for as long as I was. But something changed, and I became curious about what was going on in my body. I learned that my body can either be focused on storing energy or burning energy, but not both at the same time. When I eat less often, my body has more time to burn energy and fat.
#2 Fasting is a great way...
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#1 The Parable of the New Pastures is a sequel to the Tragedy of the Commons. It illustrates the problem of cooperation. When individual and collective interest are neither perfectly aligned nor perfectly opposed, as in Hardin's parable, any one of the herders is better off adding more animals to her herd, but this leads to collective ruin, which is not in anyone's...
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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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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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