Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins · 2018
David Goggins was born in New York in 1975 into a childhood most children couldn't survive. His father, Trunnas, was a self-made businessman who owned a roller ...
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Clear, honest summaries of the big ideas in popular nonfiction. Read the core argument of each book in a few minutes, then decide whether it earns a place on your shelf.
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie · 1936
Al Capone, the Chicago mobster who terrified the city with racketeering and violence, saw himself as a benefactor. He once said: "I have spent the best years of...
Read notesMan's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl · 1946
When prisoners arrived at Auschwitz and the other camps, their minds couldn't accept what was happening. They'd heard stories about the camps before their own a...
Read notesNever Split the Difference
Chris Voss and Tahl Raz · 2016
For decades, negotiation theory rested on a comfortable fiction: that people weigh options, calculate outcomes, and act in their rational self-interest. The FBI...
Read notesRich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki · 1997
In the 1950s, nine-year-old Robert Kiyosaki and his friend Mike wanted to be rich. They didn't know how. After failing at an entrepreneurial scheme to mint coin...
Read notesSapiens
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
When Homo sapiens first appeared 150,000 years ago, we weren't the apex predators of the Earth. We were one animal among many, without any greater impact on our...
Read notesThe 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene · 1998
King Louis XIV threw Nicolas Fouquet, his finance minister, into prison after the man threw a lavish party to impress the king. The party was meant to demonstra...
Read notesThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey · 1989
The self-help world splits roughly in half, and Covey observed this split by looking back 200 years of advice. One side sells techniques: say the right thing, u...
Read notesThe Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk · 2014
Trauma isn't confined to war zones or headline crimes. It threads through ordinary lives in ways we rarely acknowledge. In a single year, 3 million cases of chi...
Read notesThinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Your brain operates with two fundamentally different engines running in parallel. System 1 is your automatic, intuitive mind, the one that fires instantly when ...
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