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Wa — The Art of Balance Summary

December 11, 2024April 28, 2025 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: Wa — The Art of Balance is a beautifully illustrated guide to improving your health and wellbeing in four areas—eating, moving, resting, and socializing—with small, manageable tweaks based on the author’s experience of growing up in both Japan and the US.

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The Way of Nagomi Summary

October 16, 2024November 28, 2024 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Way of Nagomi explains a unique Japanese concept that can help us find and practice a relaxed, effortless form of balance in various areas of life, from food and health to relationships, creativity, and even with ourselves.

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The Little Book of Ikigai Summary

September 11, 2024November 14, 2024 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Little Book of Ikigai explains the popular Japanese concept of ikigai, a way of finding joy and meaning in life, based on 5 simple pillars and the experience of a Japanese neuroscientist for an authentic, original take on this idea.

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Right Thing, Right Now Summary

June 12, 2024October 21, 2024 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: Right Thing, Right Now is a Stoic guide to becoming a fairer, kinder, and more honest person, arguing the case for justice as it relates to us as individuals, our society at large, and, ultimately, all things in this world.

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The Anxious Generation Summary

April 10, 2024May 6, 2024 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones, social media, and helicopter parenting have led to a decline in young people’s mental health and offers actionable solutions to help both our kids and ourselves become mature, emotionally stable adults.

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Reframe Your Brain Summary

April 3, 2024April 4, 2024 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: Reframe Your Brain is a collection of over 160 simple but effective mental shifts you can make to improve your mental and physical health, your social life and odds of success, and even how you look at reality itself.

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Slow Productivity Summary

March 13, 2024May 6, 2024 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: Slow Productivity offers a holistic new philosophy for a better relationship with work that allows us to make meaningful contributions at a sustainable pace, rooted in three pillars: fewer commitments, taking our time, and insisting on delivering high-quality work.

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Elon Musk Summary (Walter Isaacson)

March 6, 2024May 6, 2024 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: Elon Musk is an intimate account of the life of the man who might be the 21st century’s most important innovator, engineer, and businessman, based on over two years of shadowing him through the ups and downs of his everyday life running Tesla, SpaceX, and four other world-changing companies.

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Supercommunicators Summary

February 28, 2024May 6, 2024 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: Supercommunicators is a guide to connecting more genuinely and efficiently with other people thanks to identifying 3 kinds of recurring conversations, and then aligning with others to help everyone feel heard, validated, and get what they want. 

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The Diary of a CEO Summary

February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 Niklas Göke

1-Sentence-Summary: The Diary of a CEO condenses 33 of the best lessons podcaster Steven Bartlett has learned from hundreds of interviews with great business leaders, creatives, and scientists into concise laws you can apply immediately to build, grow, and continuously improve both your business and your life.

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