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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....

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.  

Buy now to get the insights from Jim Kwik's Limitless. Sample Insights: 1) Jim Kwik, the author, sustained a brain injury in kindergarten which affected his reading and learning skills, as well as his memory. 2) Often when you put a label on someone or something, you create a limit, and the label becomes the limitation. Adults have to be very careful with their external words because a child internalizes them quickly. Kwik suffered from that when bullies called him “the boy with the broken brain”. 

Roman emperors, when referenced, usually conjure the mental image of lavishly clad but lazy leaders, adorned with golden circlets and surrounded by servants with palm fronds. But not all Roman rulers fit that ostentatious image.... 

In the mid 2000s, nightclubs in cities like New York, Los Angeles, London, and Melbourne became packed with well-dressed, toned, and tanned men, all spouting the same pickup lines. For these self-proclaimed pickup artists, the goal was not just to take home girls, but to become the world’s leading gurus in the art of seduction. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

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

If a strange old gas station attendant offered to teach you to change your life, would you take him up on the offer? Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives (1980) is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction by Dan Millman, a personal transformation coach and former collegiate gymnast....

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. 

For years, you’ve dreamed of achieving your life’s ambitions. Actual successes, however, fall far short of your daydreams.... 

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....

What does it take to become a dazzling public speaker? It’s a question that business professionals ask themselves all the time. And the answers are simpler than you might think....

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.

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. 

What accounts for the persistence of racism in America? The answer is simple, but it challenges the views and self-conception of many who might otherwise consider themselves innocent of racism.... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more. 

Buy now to get key insights from James Nestor's Breath. Sample Insights 1) For the past century, the prevailing belief in Western medicine was that the nose was more or less an ancillary organ. We should breathe out of it if we can, the thinking went, but if not, no problem. That’s what the mouth is for. 2) The nose is a very important part of our body. It is a filter that prevents harmful things from getting into the body. 

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. 

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

People’s experiences, their upbringing, their status, and other factors shape their view of the world and how it functions. All experiences and views are different. Buy now to get key insights from Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money. 

Buy now to get key insights from Bob Iger’s The Ride of a Lifetime. 

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...