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Book Preview: #1 The American Dream encourages individuals to achieve greatness, but is it true. Many who have reached the top in sport or any other field choose to tell their stories with the American Dream attributes of speed, guile, and adaptability. But these are not always the attributes that elevate people above others.
#2 Mr. Charters was a teacher at the local primary school,...
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#1 I have heard many stories from my clients about their resilience in action. For example, Deborah had had a wonderful day at the beach, but was still able to think about her brother who had had a heart attack four months before.
#2 We all deal with stress every day, and we all have to respond to it. Resilience is the ability to cope with pressures and tragedies quickly,...
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#1 When you are sensitive to rejection, it can throw you off track. For instance, Mandy would often overreact when someone was unable to meet her for dinner. She was not able to see that it wasn't because they didn't value her, but because of a simple conflict in their schedule.
#2 Rejection, or the fear of it, can be devastating. It can lead some people to guard against...
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#1 The Law of No Matter What is a commitment to action. You can ask for what you want, think about it, focus on it, but when you say no matter what, you add acceleration to your desires with your unwavering intention.
#2 The power of this book is that it tells the truth first. I take a risk by climbing off the podium and leaving the safety of the stage to uncover...
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Get the Summary of James Kerr's Legacy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In today's volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, personal leadership has never been more relevant and Legacy goes to the heart of how great leaders - and we are all leaders - 'reboot' and reframe their future.
It is a truly life-defining read that addresses the big questions - values, vision,...
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Book Preview: #1 In 2006, we saw the popping of the real estate bubble, the collapse of the private debt bubble, the fall of the stock market bubble, the decline of consumer spending, and the widespread pain that all of this would soon cause to the broader multibubble economy.
#2 Economic bubbles, by their very nature, eventually burst. After they burst, they never are able to reinflate...
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Get the Summary of Saul Griffith's Electrify in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals, we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest "climate loans." Griffith's...
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#1 The battle to control your life is real and it will be difficult. But it's a battle worth fighting, and if you win, you will achieve great success on every front. If you lose, you will live a life of complacency, mediocrity, and discontent.
#2 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. We are supposed to have everything under control, but we're not, and we pretend...
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#1 There are many different ways people respond to the same event, and the reason is not just that their DNA differs, but that their brain activity differs as well.
#2 Emotional Style is the way in which we react to different types of emotions. It is what makes some people bounce back from a painful divorce while others remain mired in self-recrimination and despair.
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Get the Summary of Jordan Belfort's Way of the Wolf in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: For the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives readers access to his exclusive step-by-step system-the same system he used to create massive wealth for himself, his clients, and his sales teams. Until now this revolutionary program was only available through Jordan's $1,997 online...
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Get the Summary of Jordan Belfort's The Way of the Wolf in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: For the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives you access to his exclusive step-by-step system-the same system he used to create massive wealth for himself, his clients, and his sales teams. Until now, this revolutionary program was only available through Jordan's $1,997 online...
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#1 Helen, after college, spent most of her time with non-government organizations fighting for a better world. She went wherever she was needed, and one day, her mother asked her to come home. Her father had killed himself in the house where she grew up.
#2 When I asked Helen if she had ever thought of herself as resilient, she was taken aback but not confused. She replied...
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Book Preview: #1 Secure attachment is the process of being in attunement with your loved ones. It doesn't mean that you will always get what you want, or that you will never be upset by life, or that your parents are perfect.
#2 The five elements of secure attachment are protection, support, presence, autonomy, and interdependence. As children, we develop autonomy when we receive...
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Book Preview: #1 The basketball was a Keaton prop for years to come. In 1899, the family's first paid engagement as a trio at the Wonderland Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Buster got laughs by bouncing the ball off his father's head.
#2 Buster's life as a performer and creator was extremely successful for the first three decades of the new century, catapulting his family from the...
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Book Preview: #1 The game the rest of the world knows as jai alai was invented in the French Basque town of St. Pée-sur-Nivelle. The Basques, as they often did, went in a completely different direction than the French. They were the first Europeans to use a rubber ball, and the added bounce of wrapping rubber rather than string led them to play the ball off walls.
#2 The gâteau...
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Get the Summary of William B. Irvine's The Stoic Challenge in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately, this is not the case. Stoicism offers us an alternative approach. Plumbing the wisdom of one of the most popular and successful schools of thought from ancient Rome,...
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#1 The stench of a war zone never leaves you. As you move through the streets of a city after an operation, you can't help but smell the pain and suffering of those who were there just a few hours before.
#2 The first three SEALs in the stack opened fire on the man, zipping him up with several rounds from their suppressed short barrel M4 rifles. The house did not look...
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#1 I had been up with James for a feeding an hour earlier, and noticed that something was off. I felt nauseous and spacy, and my head was pounding. I took a pregnancy test, which showed the negative sign. So what's wrong with me. I wondered. Food poisoning. Some weird virus.
#2 I was sitting at home on campus preparing for my final exam when I heard Katherine gasping...
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Book Preview: #1 I wanted to see the Northern Lights, and I had long harbored a half-formed desire to live what life was like in a remote and forbidding place. But now as I picked my way through the grey, late-December slush of Oslo, I was beginning to have my doubts.
#2 In 1972, I went to Europe for the first time. I flew from New York to Luxembourg, with a refuelling stop en route...
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Book Preview: #1 I took my dog to the vet, who found that he had a violent cough. The vet decided to do an X-ray to see if something was stuck in his windpipe. The nurse gave him a shot to knock him out, because he was not a good boy and did not want to behave.
#2 I had always wanted to believe in something like dogs bringing out the best in us, but I couldn't picture it with an old,...
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