Category: Book Insights
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Steven Pressfield Life Lessons, How to Meet Resistance and Do Your Best Work
Seven life lessons from Steven Pressfield on Resistance, turning pro and doing your best creative work, plus a plan to start this week.
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Make the Best Use of This Week, Epictetus on Freedom, Habit and Gratitude
Timeless Authors series. Epictetus on making the best use of what is ours, small habits and gratitude, plus a ten minute two baskets check.
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Since Feeling Is First, E. E. Cummings on Wonder, Love and Living Fully
Timeless Authors series. E. E. Cummings on feeling first, puddle wonderful mornings and a love of life, plus a simple wonder walk.
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Dream Lofty Dreams and Become Them, James Allen on Thought, Vision and Calm
Timeless Authors series. James Allen’s brightest lines from As a Man Thinketh on thought, vision and calm, his story and a ten minute Sunday morning practice.
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Let Your Mind Settle Like Clear Water, Lao Tzu on Stillness, Small Steps and Gentle Strength
Timeless Authors series. Lao Tzu’s gentlest wisdom on stillness, small beginnings and the strength of water, his story and a ten minute morning practice.
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Wake Up With a Dawn in You, Henry David Thoreau on Mornings and Simple Living
Timeless Authors series. Henry David Thoreau’s brightest lines from Walden on mornings, simplicity and following your dreams, his story and a ten minute morning practice.
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Extreme Ownership, the Navy SEAL Idea That Turns Every Setback Into Your Next Move
The Navy SEAL leadership idea that turns every setback into your next move. Key lessons from Extreme Ownership and how to use them today.
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Wake With a Winged Heart, Kahlil Gibran on Love, Work and Joy
Timeless Authors series. Kahlil Gibran’s warmest wisdom on love, work, joy and friendship from The Prophet, his story and a dawn practice for a winged heart.
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What If You Have Lived Before? Inside 60 Years of Research on Children’s Past Life Memories
A University of Virginia team has studied children’s past life memories since 1967. What they found, and what it can mean for how you live today.
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Look Within, Marcus Aurelius and the Quiet Power of a Well Tended Mind
Timeless Authors series. The emperor who kept a private notebook of wisdom, his best quotes from the Meditations and a ten minute morning practice.
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Are You Playing Your Own Game or Chasing Someone Else’s Score?
The Score by C. Thi Nguyen, summarized in 12 lessons on value capture, striving play, and how to reclaim the game you actually want to play.
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Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It, Seneca on Time, Fear and Friendship
Timeless Authors series. Seneca’s warmest wisdom on time, fear and friendship, his story and his own one thought daily practice.
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The Room You Walk Into Is Shaping You. Choose It Well.
The Person and the Situation by Ross and Nisbett, chapter by chapter. How situations shape behavior, why we misjudge people, and how to use it daily.
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In Pursuit of Latent Wonderfulness
What is latent wonderfulness? The Designing Your Life idea explained, plus 4 practical ways to find the hidden good in your work and life this week.
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Make Hard Things Easier, the Big Idea Behind Angela Duckworth’s Situated
Angela Duckworth’s Situated shows how your surroundings shape your behavior. Make hard things easier with smart setup, your people, and a 10 minute practice.
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The Permission You Keep Waiting For Is Already in Your Hand
You Can Just Do Things by Jay Yang, summarized in 12 lessons on permissionless action, doing the work first, and starting today with what you have.
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Your Beliefs Are Painting Your World. Pick Up the Brush.
The Nature of Personal Reality summary, chapter by chapter. Jane Roberts’s Seth classic on beliefs, the present point of power, and shaping your days.
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The Magic of Believing Starts in the Mirror
Claude M. Bristol’s 1948 classic The Magic of Believing, his mirror and card techniques, and how to let belief become something you feel in your bones.
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The Giant in You Is Already Awake; Here’s How to Let It Stand
Tony Robbins’ classic Awaken the Giant Within, in five morning practices. Decide, raise your standards, change your words, ask better questions, and rise.
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What Cashvertising Taught Me About the Desires That Move Every Human Heart
I picked up a book about advertising and found a book about people. Meet the eight desires Cashvertising reveals, and learn to create with them honestly.