Think and Grow Rich
Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.
2,458-word summary · 11 min read
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
Who Moved My Cheese?
A tiny parable about two mice and two little people hunting cheese in a maze, and why adapting to change beats waiting for old days to return.
2,533-word summary · 11 min read
Quiet
Cain traces the Extrovert Ideal from Harvard Business School to open offices and defends the power of quiet.
2,898-word summary · 13 min read
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's tour of two minds: fast gut System 1 and slow careful System 2, and how biases, overconfidence, and framing shape every choice.
2,306-word summary · 10 min read
The Power of Habit
Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste to the bus boycott.
2,207-word summary · 10 min read
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Fast judgments can beat analysis, and fail hard, in Gladwell's 2005 book on snap thinking.
2,008-word summary · 9 min read
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
How tiny shifts push ideas and products past a tipping point into epidemics.
2,014-word summary · 9 min read
Outliers: The Story of Success
Success comes from practice, timing, and hidden chances more than talent alone.
1,934-word summary · 9 min read
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rebel McMurphy takes on Nurse Ratched's ward, narrated by the silent Chief Bromden who sees everything.
1,991-word summary · 9 min read
Man's Search for Meaning
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it.
2,012-word summary · 9 min read
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Blogger Mark Manson argues for fewer cares held better, through suffering, values, failure and saying no, with raw stories.
2,020-word summary · 9 min read