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#1 Your life is made up of many lifetimes, lived consecutively. You experience cruelty and kindness from both sides. The modern era is rare, because it is the only time in your life when you experience such dramatic population growth.
#2 The idea of longtermism is that positively influencing the longterm future is a key moral priority of our time. It is about taking...
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Get the Summary of Ryan Holiday's Discipline Is Destiny in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Discipline Is Destiny" by Ryan Holiday explores the pivotal role of discipline in achieving greatness and self-mastery. The book draws on historical figures like Lou Gehrig, whose consistent performance and modest lifestyle exemplified discipline, and Toni Morrison, who maintained a disciplined writing routine amidst challenges....
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Book Preview: #1 Some people may be better at listening to their bodies and getting good judgments than others. The best financial traders are not necessarily the most intelligent, but rather those who are the most sensitive to interoceptive signals.
#2 Interoception is the awareness of the inner state of the body. It is generated in places all over the body, and then travels via...
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Get the Summary of Edward Snowden's Permanent Record in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented...
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#1 Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was the father of existentialism. He was born in Copenhagen in 1813. He entered the University of Copenhagen in 1830, but it took him more than a decade to finish his degree. He passed his exams in 1840 and a year later completed his dissertation, On the Concept of Irony: With Constant Reference to Socrates.
#2 Kierkegaard wrote about the...
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#1 The question What is philosophy. is one of the most controversial and debated in the field of philosophy. It is a simple but fundamental proposition that the human being is a finite being who is aware of his limits. He cannot prevent himself from thinking about this state of affairs, which is disturbing and absurd.
#2 The word salvation is defined first and...
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Book Preview: #1 The world is full of jerks, and we're all going to encounter them. If we don't like something, we'll be unhappy when we encounter it. So we might as well get used to it and not be jerks ourselves.
#2 Insults are the main reason why someone gets offended, even though the insulter isn't always ill-willed or even aware of saying something offensive. There is a difference...
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#1 The five elements play a major role in Taoist practices. They are symbolized as water, wood, fire, earth, and metal or air. When we make contact with these forces and learn to integrate them within our own energy field, we become connected to the entire universe.
#2 The universe is a spinning system. Everything around us spins, and we must establish ourselves in the...
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Book Preview: #1 The FBI's Investigative Support Unit attempts to develop a profile of the criminal mind, by analyzing the clues at a crime scene. Everything tells us something about the unknown subject who committed the crime, and we can make various conclusions when we see patterns start to emerge.
#2 When interviewing prison ers, we try to know as much about them as possible before...
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#1 I met Kathie Lee Gifford in 2007, and she helped me change my life. She joined the fourth hour of Today, and what followed was an 11-year professional and personal relationship I treasure.
#2 Scars are a sign of healing, and they are the thing that cuts through the BS about what matters in life and who we want to share it with. Don't you think it's our scars that...
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#1 The rise of global capitalism and its associated ideologies, including neoliberalism, has created a culture of individualism that is difficult to resist. It is important to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle.
#2 The Black...
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#1 On July 6, 2017, Trump addressed the death of America in an address to the Polish people in Warsaw's Krasinski Square. He spoke not of America, but of Western civilization, and stated that the West does not stand alone against its enemies.
#2 Trump's supporters consider him to be the serial killer of America's most cherished values and institutions. He and his followers...
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#1 There is a strong taboo on religion in some circles, even among people who go to church or read the Bible. Religion is considered a private matter, and it is bad form or uncool to discuss it or make a big show of piety.
#2 The question of why there is existence at all is a difficult one to answer. It is a feeling of universal oddity, and it includes a basic and intense...
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#1 Until a certain level of evolution has been reached and technology has developed, to question fundamental biological conditions is insanity. But for the first time in some countries, the preconditions for feminist revolution exist.
#2 The theory of historical materialism was not the complete answer, as later events proved. While it was a brilliant advance over...
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Book Preview: #1 In 1936, German troops marched into the Rhineland, a strip of western Germany bordering France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. It was a violation of the Versailles Treaty, and the French and British governments did not respond with force.
#2 The French military was extremely indifferent to the calls for modernization and reform from some of their underlings....
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#1 I was once in a trance while gazing at the stars in eastern Bali. I felt myself falling through space, and between the constellations below and the constellations above drifted countless fireflies, their lights flickering like the stars.
#2 I had traveled to Indonesia on a research grant to study magic, and I had been a professional sleight-of-hand magician for five...
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#1 The humanist belief in progress is a secular version of the Christian faith that humans are different from all other animals. In reality, there is nothing that can be called progress.
#2 The idea that humanity can shape its future assumes that humans are exempt from the truth that species are only governed by the same laws as other animals. If the human species is...
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Book Preview: #1 The American democracy is ruled by an invisible government made up of men who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. They control us by our qualities of natural leadership, ability to supply needed ideas, and their key position in the social structure.
#2 The process of organizing and focusing public opinion is necessary to orderly life....
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Book Preview: #1 This book is for people who are ready to do the work, people who want to create change in the world by activating change within themselves first. It is a resource that helps you take responsibility for dismantling the way that this system manifests, both within yourself and within your community.
#2 The work is not about those out there, but about you - just you....
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Book Preview:#1 The study of reasons for opinions is at the center of philosophy. However, many other disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, statistics, biology, literature, geography and history, seek the same thing.
#2 Continental philosophy is more concerned with broad concepts, while analytic philosophy is more concerned with precision and clarity.
#3 Philosophy is a discipline...
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