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Get the Summary of Bill Perkins's Die With Zero in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as well as practical guide on how to get the most out of your money-and out of your life. It's intended for those who place lifelong memorable experiences far ahead of simply making and accumulating money for one's so-called "golden years."
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#1 The ancient Egyptians believed that everything in the natural world was divine. They gave animal heads to human bodies to demonstrate the interdependence of everything in the world.
#2 The gods are important to us now because they embody certain higher principles and are the spiritual exemplars and way-showers who can give us the guidance we need. We know we are born...
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#1 The pandemic proved the validity of many of the trends we were seeing. It also proved that companies were capable of collaborating on a massive scale to produce vaccines, which validated the ideas in our previous book.
#2 The pandemic accelerated the pace of technology adoption. Companies that were laggards in terms of technology adoption before the pandemic were...
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#1 Use your StoryBrand BrandScript on social media to open the story gap, move your followers up an engagement ladder, and then close the story gap with a call to action.
#2 Learn the practical logistics of how to post your content, such as when and where to post, and how many accounts you need on each platform.
#3 Your social media marketing should be about your audience,...
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#1 I had been walking for hours in the rain, and I had reached the end of the town. I was standing in a busy queue by the side of a long, mean street. Evening was closing in, and it was raining. I had been wandering for hours in similar mean streets, always in the rain, always in evening twilight.
#2 The passengers were not pleased when the bus driver arrived. They fought...
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Get the Summary of Ben Shapiro's The Authoritarian Moment in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We've heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism, that conservatives...
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Get the Summary of Brody Mullins & Luke Mullins's The Wolves of K Street in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The Wolves of K Street (2024) details the enduring power of corporate lobbying in Washington, DC. Journalists Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins trace the history of lobbying, focusing on the rise and fall of powerful firms since the 1970s. Their subjects include Tommy Podesta, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort,...
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#1 The community of La Mora is made up of approximately forty families, and they are all extremely diverse. They include breakaway Mormon fundamentalists, polygamists, Mormon-born worshipers who identify as independents, mainstream Mormons, and even some agnostics and hippies.
#2 Another group of American Mormons emigrated to Mexico in the 1950s and settled in the neighboring...
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Get the Summary of Hal Elrod and Cameron Herold's The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Now The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs brings you these principles in a whole new light - alongside the entrepreneurial elevation principles and the entrepreneur's elevation skills. These are essential skills that you need to create a successful business and personal...
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#1 Alite was in prison in Brazil, and he was being targeted by the corrupt warden. He had to fight back, so he inserted a knife into his rectum. He had to survive, even if it meant going against the odds.
#2 Alite was an American mobster arrested on an Interpol warrant after spending more than a year bouncing from country to country. He had made three stops in Cuba....
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Get the Summary of Nicholas Wapshott's Samuelson Friedman in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business and economics. Paul Samuelson was a towering figure in Keynesian economics, which supported the management of the economy along lines prescribed by John Maynard Keynes's General Theory. Milton Friedman,...
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Get the Summary of Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais' Team Topologies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Team Topologies DevOps consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams.
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Get the Summary of Sian O'Gorman's Mothers and Daughters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mothers and Daughters" by Sian O'Gorman is a story set in Ireland, focusing on Tabitha, a school principal, her politically ambitious husband Michael, and their daughter Rosie, who is under immense pressure from her Leaving Cert exams. Tabitha is caught between her free-spirited mother Nora's activism, Michael's political...
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Book Preview: #1 The Support Group meets at the public library in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and provides community for people who have lost loved ones to suicide.
#2 However, in the past twenty years, a more conservative and pro-gun legislature and citizenry have relaxed restrictions governing practically every aspect of buying, owning, and carrying firearms in the state. As a result,...
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Get the Summary of Alex Marlow's Breaking the News in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Alex Marlow was just a twenty-one-year-old UC Berkeley student when renowned media mogul Andrew Breitbart hired him as his first employee. Breitbart began mentoring Marlow on how to fight the culture war one headline at a time and to remain resilient in the face of personal attacks.
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Book Preview: #1 Some couples fight about money, but my ex-husband and I didn't talk about it at all. We were completely clueless about our finances, and we had no clear purpose or bigger ambitions. We were constantly struggling to manage our money.
#2 When I was divorced, I felt heart-clenching failure. I had stripped away everything my son had known: a backyard, his own bedroom,...
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#1 The young woman, Maria, had been perfectly healthy until just after last Christmas. She'd come home from college to see her family and friends, and as she prepared to head back to school, she began to feel queasy. She couldn't eat or drink anything, and the slightest odor made her feel like she was going to vomit.
#2 The only time she felt normal during these attacks...
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Get the Summary of Sally Ozonoff's A Parents Guide to HighFunctioning Autism Spectrum Disorder in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Parent's Guide to High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder" by Sally Ozonoff provides a comprehensive look at the challenges and strengths of individuals with high-functioning ASD. The book traces the evolution of the autism diagnosis, including the integration of Asperger syndrome...
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Book Preview: #1 Entrepreneurship is an important field to be in, not only because of the money and the fame, but also because it creates a lot of the jobs in the future.
#2 The author is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He has written the books “The New Business Road Test” and “Getting to Plan B”, which teach...
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#1 The term racial is used to describe a pattern of oppression of one group of people by another. It is not an automatic promotion to oppressor, and historically, racial dissimilarities have not only been artificially used, they are themselves artificial.
#2 By considering racial oppression in terms of the substantive, the operative element, namely oppression, it is...
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