1-Sentence-Summary: Daily Rituals is a compilation of the best practices and habits of successful people from different fields aimed to help anyone increase productivity, get past writerโs block, and become more creative and efficient in their everyday work.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Worldly Philosophers is your hands-on guide to economics, how the world works overall but especially from a financial point of view, what are the social and economic systems that existed throughout history, and how certain peopleโs concepts got to shape the world we know today.
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1-Sentence-Summary: A World Without Email presents a utopia where people engage in their usual professional activities without using emails as a means of communication, and explores a new way of working that doesnโt rely on instant messaging, which is known for decreasing productivity at the workplace.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Guns, Germs, and Steel is a multidisciplinary study that employs anthropological, biological, evolutionary, and socio-economic analyses to chart the fates of different peoples throughout human history and understand why some groups succeeded to develop and advance, while others havenโt.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The 100-Year Life teaches you how to be resourceful and prepare ahead of time for a world in which people not only live longer but reach an age in the triple-digits, and talks about what you should be doing right now to ensure you have enough money for retirement.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Daily Stoic is a year-long compilation of short, daily meditations from ancient Stoic philosophers like Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and others, teaching you equanimity, resilience, and perseverance via the three Stoic disciplines of perception, action, and will.
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1-Sentence-Summary: That Sounds Fun uncovers the secrets of a happy life: mindfulness, love, joy, and a good dose of doing whatever makes us happy as often as we can, starting from simple, day-to-day activities, to much bigger life experiences that speak to our soul.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Hug Your Haters talks about the importance of acknowledging your haters or dissatisfied customers and valuing their opinion in the process of building better products, improving the existing offerings, and growing your strategies overall.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Second Sex delves into the concept of feminism by looking at historical facts and biases, and explains how being a woman implies being subjugated to a man and making yourself smaller so that you can fit in todayโs world, but also how women everywhere should react to the system and change it.
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1-Sentence-Summary: How the Word Is Passed talks about the cult of slavery that overshadows a large part of Americaโs history and how past experiences often dictate the future, or in our case, even the present, which is why we as a people should look into our history and learn from our ancestorโs mistakes to build a better world.
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