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The Wisdom of the Bullfrog Summary

November 22, 2023November 8, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Wisdom of the Bullfrog breaks down 18 sayings, mottos, and parables used in the military, which helped admiral William H. McRaven throughout his four-decade Navy SEAL career to lead and inspire himself and others.

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Same as Ever Summary

November 8, 2023November 13, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: Same as Ever is a collection of 23 short stories highlighting timeless human flaws and patterns to help you make better financial and life decisions based on the things that never change instead of trying to predict the future.

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How the World Really Works Summary

October 25, 2023October 6, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: How the World Really Works breaks down the physical underpinnings that keep everyday life going, from explaining energy to food production to the material constituents of our cities, and even globalization, risks, climate change, and what it’ll take for humans to have a good future.

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The God Delusion Summary

October 18, 2023October 10, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: The God Delusion makes the case for science as our fundamental source of hope, optimism, and inspiration in life, arguing that religion is an outdated by-product of evolution, that God doesn’t exist, and that we can be just as happy, moral, and fulfilled without it.

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Life Worth Living Summary

September 20, 2023September 19, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: Life Worth Living is a guide to finding your own answers to life’s biggest questions, based on a popular Yale class, drawing on a wide variety of examples, religions, philosophies, and historical individuals, so you can discover how you should live for maximum meaning and significance.

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Starry Messenger Summary

September 13, 2023September 11, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: Starry Messenger looks at the big, human debates of our time — from gender and race to beauty and truth to religion, politics, and war — from a cosmic, scientific angle, bringing the context of the universe to our greatest problems, thus showing us how, with perspective, insight, and empathy, we can solve them together.

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What’s Our Problem? Summary

September 6, 2023September 6, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: What’s Our Problem? explains what’s going on in our modern times, why everyone seems to be acting crazy, and how societies function, fall, and thrive, using plenty of original frameworks to give us new, better ways of thinking and communicating in our complicated world.

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A Walk Around the Block Summary

August 30, 2023August 8, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: A Walk Around the Block is a beautiful, local-neighborhood exploration of where “the things that sustain us,” aka our infrastructure, comes from, shedding light on 26 everyday wonders we now take for granted but that took decades, sometimes millennia, to reach the masses and change history.

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The Great Gatsby Summary

June 14, 2023June 5, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Great Gatsby is an American classic following Jay Gatsby’s quest to win back his long-lost love by faking a successful life, depicting the struggles around love, relationships, societal standing, and consumerism of people in the “roaring” 1920s.

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A Tale of Two Cities Summary

June 7, 2023June 2, 2023 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: A Tale of Two Cities tells the stories of two connected families in 18th-century London and Paris, exploring everything from love and loss to murder and family intrigue, thus teaching us about history, ethics, and the complexity of human relationships.

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