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What would you do with the power of irresistible persuasion? Jordan Belfort, a banker whose wild lifestyle was immortalized in the 2013 Hollywood film The Wolf of Wall Street, believes that anyone can lead a more empowered life by mastering the art of persuasion.... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more. 

Humans are surprisingly irrational. Luckily, the mistakes we make are predictable, which makes them easier to prevent or correct....

Fear is an emotion designed to protect us from physical danger. It is only supposed to affect us when there is real danger. But because of the way civilization has developed, we have more and more things to be afraid of, even though the world is safer than ever. 

Do you suffer from stage fright? It’s time to get over it. In The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking (1962), self-help expert Dale Carnegie says there’s no such thing as a natural-born public speaker.... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more. 

Buy now to get key insights from Jay Shetty’s Think Like a Monk. 

In The Bulletproof Diet: Lose Up to a Pound a Day, Reclaim Energy and Focus, Upgrade Your Life (2014), entrepreneur and health guru Dave Asprey explains how he shed 100 pounds, increased his muscle mass, and improved his mental performance by developing a diet that’s high in healthy fats and low in carbohydrates and sugars. Asprey’s diet boosts health by avoiding common toxins found in foods; these include mycotoxins, which are found in mold....

Buy now to get key insights from Mary Trump's Too Much and Never Enough. Sample insights: 1. Mary Trump's grandmother, Mary, had to have surgery after complications while giving birth. Her grandfather, Fred, got the best doctors to make sure she'd be okay. 2. During and after her surgeries, Mary’s absence - both literal and emotional - created a void in the lives of her children, but they were old enough to understand what was happening.

Author Stephen King lived an odd, herky-jerky childhood. He was raised by a single parent who moved around a lot in his earliest years, and who occasionally gave him and his brother away to one of her sisters for a while because she was economically or emotionally unable to cope with them. When he was five or six, King asked his mother if she had ever seen anyone die. She said she’d seen a man jump off the roof of a hotel and splatter on the street, and she’d seen a girl scream and drown to her death on the beach.

It’s dangerous to talk to strangers. But the reasons why might surprise you. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell is a meditation on the difficulties of understanding other people. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more about this book.

It’s time for your performance review, or the discussion over who does the dishes - or maybe you’re about to receive student evaluations. Feedback is coming, and anxiety is creeping up...

Are you still in control of your drinking? Or is the alcohol controlling you? In The Easy Way to Control Alcohol (2001), self-help author Allen Carr explains his method for quitting alcohol use altogether, without suffering withdrawal or subsequent cravings....

Though we are liable to forget, Western civilization was not founded as a Christian enterprise. The ancient Greece that invented democracy and birthed all the arts and sciences we now take for granted, never heard of Jesus. Before Jerusalem, before Rome, before Mecca, there was Eleusis. 

It’s a well-noted phenomenon: A nice guy asks out a girl; the girl rejects him for a jerk. Sure, it’s easy to chalk the jerk’s prowess up to simple good looks or luck....

Buy now to get key insights from Glennon Doyle’s Untamed. At age 10, we learn how to be good girls and real boys. Ten is when children begin to hide who they are in order to become what the world expects them to be. All of the things that make a woman human are a good girl’s dirty secret. But Glennon was a caged girl made for wide-open skies.

Buy now to get the insights from Dale Carnegie's The Art of Public Speaking. Sample insights include: 1) The only way to get over stage fright is to face the audience. The more you do it, the less you will be afraid. 2) Be absorbed by your subject. If you are so absorbed by your subject that you can't think of anything else, you won't be self-conscious. 

What if the secret to accomplishing more has nothing to do with managing time? What if cultivating energy, instead, is the secret to living a fuller, more satisfying life....

The best salespeople don’t sell products: They sell themselves. A traditional sales approach means making hundreds of calls while desperately hanging on to a sliver of hope that one or two people might respond favorably to the call....

Based on the true story of renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram, Please Continue recounts the infamous obedience experiments at Yale in the 1960s. In that study, participants were asked to administer strong electric shocks to a subject who gave the wrong answer to a question, not knowing that the shocks were fake, and they were the real subject of the study. The play examines how the experiments gave insight into the nature of authoritarianism and individual morality.

Everything in life is a game. Your first task is to make sure that you know what game you’re trying to play.... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.  

This audiobook offers a summary and insights from Simone Davies' The Montessori Toddler.  According to him, we should stop seeing toddlers as difficult. Instead, we should see that they’re just learning how to be human. They haven’t learned how to control their impulses and don’t have much self-control. We should let them act like toddlers instead of trying to force them to act like grown-ups.