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Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Ryan Holiday’s Perennial Seller includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis and key takeaways, and a detailed "about the author" section. Perennial Seller is a self-help book targeted to entrepreneurs and creative individuals, such as writers, artists, or filmmakers. This book seeks to help people develop a project or product that will be more than a temporary fad - what he calls a perennial seller.

Jennifer Rothschild's Me, Myself, and Lies is a self-help book for Christian women. It encourages women to stop berating themselves with disempowering lies. Speaking Christian truth about oneself to oneself helps to bring you closer to God. As a child, Rothschild was a perfectionist, who often chastised herself with negative self-talk. She had been storing ugly ideas and insecurities in her thought closet. However, she learned to look to the Bible for examples of what to say to herself. What she discovered was that the Bible encourages soul talk, or truthful praise of God. By moving from negative self-talk to soul talk, you will clean your thought closet and feel cleansed, free, and empowered.

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger, M.D. with Gene Stone asserts that the major causes of disease in the United States are mostly preventable. To encourage Americans to take control of their medical destinies, Greger examines the broken belief systems surrounding food, some specific interventions by disease, and general dietary recommendations.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Melissa and Dallas Hartwig's The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Travis Stork's The Lose Your Belly Diet: Change Your Gut, Change Your Life includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Cal Newport's Deep Work: Rules for Success in a Distracted World includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Shauna Niequist's Present over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Ortner's The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Al Franken's Al Franken: Giant of the Senate includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Bilton's American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "about the author" section. Please note: This is an analysis and key takeaways of the book and not the original book.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Brené Brown's Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead includes a summary of the book, review, analysis, and key takeaways, and detailed "about the author" section. In Daring Greatly, Brené Brown talks about engaging more fully with ourselves and our world. Please note: This is an analysis and key takeaways of the book and not the original book.

Musk was born in South Africa. His mother Maye, was a model, and his father Errol, was an electrical engineer. Musk had a difficult childhood, and was often bullied in school. His parents divorced when he was nine and he and his brother Kimbal, went to live with their father. Errol was a very unpleasant man, and treated the boys coldly and perhaps abusively. The trauma of his childhood may have affected Musk's need for validation, his obsessive work ethic, and his difficulty in communicating with others later in life.

Ben Sasse...claims at the outset that The Vanishing American Adult is a nonpartisan audiobook: he is diagnosing and attempting to solve a problem that affects both Democrats and Republicans alike, since a lack of self-reliance among young people threatens the future of the whole country. While serving as president of Midland University in Omaha, Nebraska, Sasse encountered a population of undergraduates who were in a profound state of arrested development, unable to properly mature into adulthood.

Part memoir and part pop psychology presentation, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant is about the struggles that Sandberg faced after her 47-year-old husband's unexpected death in 2015. Option A - the life that Sandberg always thought she would have - was to grow old with her husband. Option B was to figure out how to live her best life without him. Sandberg and her husband Dave Goldberg, were on vacation, celebrating a friend's birthday in Mexico when he died.

Please Note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero is a loose set of instructions about how to be happy. There was a time when Sincero felt dissatisfied with her choices and her financial situation, but she managed to turn things around by examining different areas of her life with an open mind. She knows that you can, too.

Kondo's recommendation is to handle each and every object in your home - literally picking it up and holding it in your hands - to consider whether or not it "sparks joy." If the object makes you happy, it's a keeper. If it doesn't, it should be discarded or recycled. It's essential to frame this decision as "What should I keep?" rather than "What should I throw away?" Once you have culled your belongings in this way, Kondo estimates you should have only about one-third of what you started with, perhaps less.

When her parents are arrested during a shopping event that went out of control, Jubilee is put on a train to Florida to spend Christmas with her grandparents. This is far from ideal for a variety of reasons, first and foremost because Jubilee will miss her boyfriend Noah's Christmas Eve party. Unfortunately, she has no choice. On the train, Jubilee makes a new friend, Jeb, who's headed to Graceland, North Carolina to see his girlfriend, Addie. Just outside of Graceland, a blizzard causes the train to wreck.

Kahneman uses this audiobook to explore how these decision-making processes work. He characterizes the type of rapid-fire, thoughtless reacting, that constitutes most thought as "System 1" thinking, and more reflective, strategic thinking as "System 2." Examples of System 1 managed functions include simple arithmetic, basic reading comprehension, and determining the relative distances and sizes of objects. System 2, by contrast, handles difficult tasks such as parallel parking, walking at a faster-than-normal speed.

Ajarry, Cora's grandmother, was enslaved in Africa and shipped to America. She was sold many times before she ended up on the Randall plantation in Georgia, where she bore Cora's mother, Mabel. Mabel ran away from the plantation when Cora was 10, leaving the girl to fend for herself. Cora hated Mabel for leaving her. She never found out that Mabel had in fact only gotten a few miles from the plantation, and then decided to turn back, because she couldn't bear abandoning her child.