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Don't miss out on the life-changing techniques to fight resistance and create the art within you presented by best-selling author Steven Pressfield in his book The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. Purchase your copy of FastReads' Summary with Key Takeaways & Analysis today.

Pursuing an extraordinary career is one of the best things you will ever do for yourself. It will bring you joy, friends, wisdom, treasures, stories, travels—and for author Pattie Dale Tye, a spouse. It will give you freedom and superpowers (to be used for good, not evil). You’ll be able to change lives—not just your own but legions of others. It will make you cry, wince, shout, curse, and miss vacations or family events. But in the end, it will be one of the best parts of your precious life.

Although it is possible to read financial statements without a full understanding of how they are constructed, and it is possible to work in an accounting department performing accounting tasks including data entry, without fully understanding debits and credits, it is not possible to have a complete understanding of the financial statements or financial accounting without an understanding of transactions recorded using debits and credits.

Our summary is short, simple, and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. You will discover what the five-second rule is and how to apply it. You will also discover: That you have to be honest with yourself, that motivation is useless, how to take action, how to increase your productivity, and how to improve your life.

You're already signed up to take the SAT, so why, oh why, are you taking the PSAT? What kind of world is it where you have to spend two of your precious Saturdays taking standardized tests?! We know you're not happy about it, and it's ok. You actually want to take the PSAT. Why? Two reasons: Better scores on the SAT and a shot at the most prestigious college scholarship award in the U.S.: The National Merit Scholarship. And this audiobook is your ticket to the big leagues.

Cosmic Publications is proud to give all our readers this unofficial summary guide to Adam Grant's book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know. Here, we explore the importance of changing your thinking process to reach the success and results you want to see in your life, and to find happiness in your daily journal.

Never Eat Alone (first published in 2005, and updated in 2014) by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz is a how-to guide to networking. Networking is frequently cast as selfish or shallow....

This FastReads Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to help you distill the key takeaways, review the books' content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. This six-book bundle covers everything from dealing with adversity and finding happiness to creating healthier habits and cultivating a better life. Improve your life from the inside out!

Prominent psychologist Angela Duckworth’s successive scientific studies show that perseverance in the face of challenges is a greater predictor of success than genetics.

Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself (2011) by Kristen Neff is a self-help book rooted in evidence-based psychology. Too often, people suffer from the tendency to critique themselves too harshly....

Cosmic Publications is proud to give all our listeners this unofficial summary guide to Jordan Peterson's book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. Here, we explore the importance of the 12 rules you should follow in order to live a happy and successful life. Beyond Order has expanded on Jordan Peterson's earlier book where he gives another set of 12 rules.

The founder of the Science of Mind and Religious Science wrote the book in 1919, and we have distilled this book into a synopsis and short VIP summary. This little book is an attempt to explain what each soul must discover for himself, that he stands in the midst of an eternal creative power which presses itself around his own thought, and casts back to him glorified all that he thinks.

Napoleon Hill was ahead of his time when he wrote Outwitting the Devil. There are concepts within it that would not have been well received at the time it was written but have shown themselves to be true over time, thereby strengthening their claims for us today. Considered too controversial by Hill’s family and friends, the book remained in manuscript form from its initial creation in 1938 to its publication in 2011.

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from Summary of Joel Osteen’s Peaceful on Purpose in 23 minutes or less. In stressful situations, always remind yourself of the phrase “All is well.” If you know that God is by your side, and he is all-knowing about the path you’re on, no matter what happens, you must know that it’s for your good.

This is a summary, analysis, and review of Tiny Habits, a concise and practical guide to creating long-term change by behavior scientist BJ Fogg, who explains the drivers of human behavior and outlines the steps anyone can take to create and sustain positive change.

Almost Everything: Notes on Hope (2018) by best-selling author Anne Lamott is a collection of essays on finding glimmers of optimism even amid great turbulence. Just before her sixty-first birthday, Lamott wrote these essays to share the wisdom she has gleaned from her many decades of living with her grandson and niece. Listen to this in-depth summary by Swift Reads to learn more.

Law School. Those two little words are probably all you’ve been thinking about since you made the decision to become a lawyer. Good for you! If you’re seriously considering law school you know that there’s one big hurdle you still have to leap - in addition to graduating - the Law School Admissions Test. One of the more troubling questions you probably have on your mind is when - and how - to study for this oh so important test. Well, we have the answer.

Don't miss out on the fresh perspective of best-selling author and social scientist, Brené Brown, in this summary of her audiobook, Rising Strong: The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution. This FastReads Summary contains full chapter synopses, key takeaways, and analysis to help you quickly understand Brown's insight, and turn your own vulnerability into strength today.

Programming jobs are on the rise, and the field is predicted to keep growing, fast. Landing one of these lucrative and rewarding jobs requires more than just being a good programmer. Programming Interviews for Dummies explains the skills and knowledge you need to ace the programming interview. Interviews for software development jobs and other programming positions are unique. Not only must candidates demonstrate technical savvy, they must also show that they're equipped to be a productive member of programming teams and ready to start solving problems from day one.

This is a summary of The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less, in which Richard Koch provides fresh input on the law of least effort. Convinced that success and well-being are compatible, he explains how one can earn money, maintain constructive work relationships, and lead a happy life. Are you ready to follow the guide?