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#1 In 2007, Debbie took an overdose of over ninety pills. She was mad at herself, and felt like it would crush her. She had so much self-loathing that she felt like it would crush her.
#2 The human self seems to be malfunctioning in some way, and I believe it's because we constantly put ourselves under pressure to be successful, when life's not like that.
#3 Suicide...
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#1 The first female native Timucuan leader was named princess of the island for her strength and courage. In the 1700s, the British and Spanish fought for control of the island. The British built two forts to defend against the Spanish navy.
#2 Oglethorpe secured Cumberland Island and the Georgia coast in the Battle of Bloody Marsh in 1742, which marked the end of the...
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#1 The free will problem is the question of whether we have control over how we act, and what this control involves. We typically do not use these words freedom and will when talking about our control over our actions, but for the last 2,000 years or more, Western philosophers have used these words to discuss this problem.
#2 The term freedom has two different meanings:...
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Get the Summary of Will Guidara's Unreasonable Hospitality in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world.
How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical...
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Book Preview: “Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome” (2020) is a self-help health book about restoring balance to our gut microbiome, which is essentially a diverse community of microorganisms that coexist inside our body and serve a very important purpose—to keep us healthy. Dr. Will Bulsiewicz...
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Get the Summary of Will Larson's Staff Engineer in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior software engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years. At the career level, your company's career ladder won't require that you work towards the next promotion, being promoted further is an exception rather than expected. This...
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Get the Summary of Will Wise and Chad Littlefield's Ask Powerful Questions in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Powerful questions can be used everywhere: from the board room to the city park, the dinner table to the grocery store. If you want to connect with employees at a team building retreat, hone your leadership skills as a new boss, improve the company culture where you work...this...
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#1 I visited a tardeada in the Democratic stronghold of Eagle Pass, Texas, in 2009. I was invited to the Don't Quit, Spit Blood Ranch party. When I got closer, hundreds of heads turned and fixed their gaze on me. It was like an old Western.
#2 I had been trained for this situation. It was like being at a diplomatic reception when I was in the CIA looking to bump a target of interest....
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#1 The town of Devil was hosting a talk by John Mackay, an Australian who had traveled far to give the audience his book The Bible, which was filled with visions, violence, and lore. The audience was asked to choose between Darwin and God.
#2 The town of Gympie, Australia, is named after a local tree called the gympie-gympie. It is a place of early closing and close...
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Get the Summary of Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle focuses on the particular challenges of engineering management-from sizing teams to handling technical debt to performing succession planning-and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Larson has developed a thoughtful...
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#1 Entrepreneurship is a path of freedom. You can choose to live life on your own terms and shape it into whatever you want it to be. However, building a successful business is not the same as building a successful life.
#2 The truth is that if you don't have a passion for what you are doing, your energy will eventually fizzle out. By understanding your goals and the...
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#1 I got a call from a man named Clark who said he was a freelance central banker. He told me he'd never gone to high school, but that he collected modern art. He asked for the number of my fax machine so he could send me copies of the recipes.
#2 I met Clark, the dog menu editor, and he seemed to like me. He spoke with an accent, and occasionally tossed in a word that...
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Book Preview: #1 Ben was 14 when he attacked and killed a boy who was 11. He called 999 and said he'd killed a boy, but didn't explain why. He was sentenced to an indefinite term at Her Majesty's pleasure. In prison, they treated him as if he was worthless. He attempted escapes and tried to starve himself to death.
#2 By 2010, Ben had been in prison for thirty years, three times longer...
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Book Preview: #1 The truth is, SEALs are not superheroes. They come from all walks of life and from all parts of the country. They are expected to be physically fit, mentally strong, psychologically resilient, smart, and ferociously devoted to the cause.
#2 I wanted to be a Navy SEAL when I was young. I couldn't explain why, but I felt that joining the military would give me access...
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#1 The Chinese civilization is as old as any known to us, and its history is alive with statesmen, sages, poets, artists, scientists, and saints. The Chinese, like our own ancestors, devised legends to explain origins.
#2 The first famous Chinese philosopher was Lao-tze, who wrote the book Tao-Te-Ching, or The Way and the Right. He believed in the spontaneous impulses...
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Get the Summary of Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: There Will Be Fire is the gripping story of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Thatcher, in the most spectacular attack ever linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Journalist Rory Carroll reveals the long road to Brighton, the hide-and-seek between the IRA and British security services,...
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Get the Summary of Yaroslav Trofimov's Our Enemies Will Vanish in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Our Enemies Will Vanish" by Yaroslav Trofimov is a comprehensive account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war. The book details the initial Russian expectations of a quick victory and the annexation of Crimea, followed by the Ukrainian revolutions that sought closer ties with the European Union....
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Get the Summary of Carol Roth's You Will Own Nothing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: From declines in home and vehicle ownership to global inflation and government spending, many of the trends of modern life reveal that a new world that is emerging-one in which Western citizens, by choice or by circumstance, increasingly do not own possessions or accumulate wealth. It's the perfect...
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Book Preview: #1 The American college system is extremely expensive, and while it is still considered necessary for advancement, it has become far more risky in terms of the likely career payoffs.
#2 Despite the media's obsession with the supposed skills shortage, employers actually seem relatively uninterested in academic skills. They want the skills that come from experience on...
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#1 Bio-individuality is the difference between each person's health, and it is completely unique. Everything you do either increases your health or decreases your health, and in many cases, that means everything you do either increases inflammation or decreases it.
#2 The diet industry relies on the notion that some diets will work well for some people. But that one...
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