Résultats de "Slingshot Books" dans Toutes les catégories

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Head in 23 minutes or less. Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Head (2020) offers faith-based tips and techniques for taking charge of thoughts that spin out of control. We tend to dwell on things that we wish were different, yet this merely deepens our emotional emptiness.

People quarrel over many things, but quarrels always involve one party trying to prove the other wrong. They almost always appeal to a set of inherent rules that everyone implicitly knows about human behavior. These rules make up the Law of Human Nature.

Get the main key ideas from this summary of Emily Oster’s Expecting Better in just a short listen.

In The Comfort Crisis (2021), Michal Easter explains why it’s so important to shut down the outside world and reconnect with nature, for all the benefits it provides for our relationships and our physical and mental health. The world we live in today is embedded in comfort, routine, and fake pleasures. It tries to shift our priorities and alter them, by keeping us focused on the hustle of our daily lives.

Get the main key ideas from this summary of Tim Grover’s Winning in just a short listen.

No time to read? Get the main key insights from this Summary of William Green’s Richer, Wiser, Happier in 23 minutes or less. A few key insights from Chapter 1: According to Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, “A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor it”. There are several winning principles that you can clone when it comes to making successful investments.

Get the main key insights from this summary of Oprah Winfrey’s What Happened to You in just a short listen.

Get the main key insights from this summary of Stephen C. Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis in just a short listen.

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from Summary of Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker in 23 minutes or less. After her parents moved from Washington, DC, to Hilo, Hawaii, Jennifer Doudna had a rough childhood trying to fit in. This pushed her to focus on science and books.

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from Summary of Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited in 23 minutes or less.

Get the main key insights from this summary of Donella H. Meadows’ Thinking in Systems in just a short listen.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Michael Pollan’s This Is Your Mind on Plants in 23 minutes or less. This Is Your Mind on Plants (2021) is a personal inquiry into three types of molecules and the extraordinary plants that produce them: the morphine in the opium poppy, the caffeine in coffee and tea, and the mescaline produced by the peyote and San Pedro cacti. American author Michael Pollan explains that we humans strive to vary, intensify, and sometimes transcend our ordinary consciousness.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Marie Forleo’s Everything Is Figureoutable in 23 minutes or less. In Everything Is Figureoutable (2019), Marie Forleo provides the ultimate shortcut to taking charge of our life and transforming it, revealing the single most important belief to cultivate when it comes to creating our own success. By shifting our perspective and understanding that everything in life can be figured out - that is, if we want it to be - we step into our power and begin taking responsibility for our own journey.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta's Nightmare Scenario in 23 minutes or less.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor in 23 minutes or less.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Rob Lowe’s Stories I Only Tell My Friends in 23 minutes or less. Most actors are artists who shape their lives and legacies through mixed and harsh experiences. They are constantly at the mercy of script writers, directors, producers, critics, and audiences. In Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011), Rob Lowe uncovers the burdens he endured as a child and the many ups and downs he experienced in building his acting career.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Stacey Abrams’s While Justice Sleeps in 23 minutes or less. In While Justice Sleeps (2021), Stacey Abrams narrates a thrilling tale of a brilliant young lawyer with an eidetic memory who saves the world through her loyalty to a man others had deemed insane. The novel follows Avery Keene as she deciphers the cryptic messages left to her by Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn before he went into a coma. Avery discovers shocking secrets of biological warfare and genetic engineering that had been kept hidden.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me in 23 minutes or less.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Dean Karnazes's A Runner’s High in 23 minutes or less. A Runner’s High (2021) is an autobiography that tells the story of 58-year-old ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes and his return to the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run in 2018, after a 10-year break. Karnazes looks back on his adventures and reflects on his life as a runner. He describes his experience participating in the Bishop High Sierra 100K and then the big one itself - the Western States.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Amanda & Anna Kloots’ Live Your Life in 23 minutes or less.