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Bestselling books summarized in five minutes, with one thing to actually do about it.

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Goleman: Your Feelings Arrive Before You Do

I spent way too much time with this book.

You're Already Winning. At The Wrong Thing.

I spent way too much time with this book.

He Lived There 20 Years And Never Actually Saw It

I spent way too much time with this book.

Write Down How One of You Leaves

You have already had this thought.

The layoff you've already decided on

You’ve built the model twice.

What Meditations by Marcus Aurelius still gets right about being alive

The most powerful man on Earth spent his nights writing notes to himself.

Seth Godin Wrote a 96-Page Book That Kills More Bad Businesses Than Any MBA Course. Here's What "The Dip" Actually Says.

Most business books tell you how to keep going.

A pastor wrote one book in 1952 that outsold every self-help book for 30 years. Here are the 13 ideas still working today.

The Power of Positive Thinking is one of those books everyone thinks they’ve already read.

Cal Newport proved you can only do 4 hours of real work a day. Most people waste those 4 on the wrong things.

Cal Newport is a Georgetown computer science professor who has never once used social media.

65 million people have read The Alchemist. Almost none of them applied the 11 lessons that actually matter.

I read The Alchemist for the first time at 19.