7 Minute Books: Free Book Summaries
7 Minute Books is the world's largest book-summary podcast, offering clear, friendly, roughly seven-minute audio summaries of the best fiction and nonfiction books. Hosted by Sam and Sophie, each episode distills one great book into the core arguments, frameworks, and memorable quotes. The library spans over 6,000 titles across business, psychology, self-improvement, philosophy, science, history, leadership, personal finance, productivity, communication, relationships, health, and more. Listen free with full transcripts and browse-by-category at 7minutebooks.com, or upgrade to the premium reader for complete written summaries in any language.
Episodes
The Baby Book by William Sears - Book Summary
“Trusting Your Baby, Trusting Yourself: The Case for Attachment Parenting”
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Title: The Baby Book
Author: William Sears
Category: Parenting & Family Life, Health, Food & Nutrition, Mindfulness & Wellbeing
Can a book about babies actually make you feel ca
Surrounded by Setbacks by Thomas Erikson - Book Summary
“Why We Freeze, Fight, or Flee (and How to Choose Better)”
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Title: Surrounded by Setbacks
Author: Thomas Erikson
Category: Personal Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Career Growth, Focus, Habits & Productivity
What do you actually do in the ten seconds
Clients First by Joseph Callaway and JoAnn Callaway - Book Summary
“The Profit Is the Echo: Why Serving First Wins Later”
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Title: Clients First
Author: Joseph Callaway and JoAnn Callaway
Category: Personal Finance & Investing, Startups & Entrepreneurship, Career Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement
What if the best wa
Building Your Money Machine with ChatGPT by Larry Wheeler - Book Summary
“Wheeler's Blueprint for Turning ChatGPT Into a Real Income Machine”
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Title: Building Your Money Machine with ChatGPT
Author: Larry Wheeler
Category: Sales, Branding & Marketing, Startups & Entrepreneurship, AI, Data & the Future
Can you actually b
Advice Not Given by Mark Epstein - Book Summary
“Why Trying Harder Might Be the Problem”
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Title: Advice Not Given
Author: Mark Epstein
Category: Mindfulness & Wellbeing
What if the thing standing between you and peace is the very self you're trying so hard to improve? Sam and Sophie open Mark Epstein&#x
The Secrets to Writing a Successful Business Plan by Hal Shelton - Book Summary
“Why Your Business Plan Is Really a Letter to Yourself”
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Title: The Secrets to Writing a Successful Business Plan
Author: Hal Shelton
Category: Leadership & Team Building, Startups & Entrepreneurship
What if the business plan you're writing isn't
The Urgent Life by Bozoma Saint John - Book Summary
“Bozoma Saint John on Living Like Time Is Precious”
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Title: The Urgent Life
Author: Bozoma Saint John
Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement, Memoirs & Life Stories, Psychology & Human Behavior, Mindfulness & Wellbeing
What does it mean to live urg
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book Summary
“The Green Light and the Man Who Believed in It”
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Title: The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: World History, Love, Dating & Relationships, Writing, Language & Storytelling
What if the whole point of The Great Gatsby is that Gatsby's h
Survival of the Friendliest by Brian Hare and Vanessa Wood - Book Summary
“Why Friendliness, Not Ferocity, Won the Evolutionary Game”
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Title: Survival of the Friendliest
Author: Brian Hare and Vanessa Wood
Category: Culture & Society, Science & Discovery
What if the thing that actually kept our species alive wasn't aggressio
Eat Your Age by Ian K. Smith - Book Summary
“Why Your Birthday Is the Least Interesting Number About You”
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Title: Eat Your Age
Author: Ian K. Smith
Category: Health, Food & Nutrition, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Personal Growth, Mindfulness & Wellbeing
What if the whole idea of aging as a slow
Data by Mark O'Donnell, Angela Kalemis, Mark Stanley - Book Summary
“Why Data Isn't the Answer, It's the Question”
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Title: Data
Author: Mark O'Donnell, Angela Kalemis, Mark Stanley
Category: Focus, Habits & Productivity, Career Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement, AI, Data & the Future
Sam opens the epi
How to Be a 3% Man by Corey Wayne - Book Summary
“Why the Nice Guy Finishes Last, and the 3% Who Doesn't”
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Title: How to Be a 3% Man
Author: Corey Wayne
Category: Psychology & Human Behavior, Public Speaking & Communication, Love, Dating & Relationships
Is this book as brutally honest as everyone
Helping by Edgar H. Schein - Book Summary
“Why Help Backfires and How to Offer It Without Stepping on Someone”
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Title: Helping
Author: Edgar H. Schein
Category: Workplace & Company Culture, Motivation & Self-Improvement
Why does the help we offer so often backfire, even when our advice is good? Sam
The Trojan Women by Euripides - Book Summary
“Euripides and the Women Left Standing in the Ashes”
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Title: The Trojan Women
Author: Euripides
Category: Philosophy & Big Ideas, Culture & Society, World History
Troy has fallen and the men are dead, so what happens to the women? Sam and Sophie sit with th
Bedtime Biography: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - Book Summary
“Born a Crime: Laughter as Resistance in Apartheid South Africa”
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Title: Bedtime Biography: Born a Crime
Author: Trevor Noah
Category: Memoirs & Life Stories
What does it mean to be born a crime? Sam and Sophie open with the fact that under apartheid, Trevor No
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner - Book Summary
“Why 99.5 Percent of Big Projects Blow Up, and How the Rest Don't”
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Title: How Big Things Get Done
Author: Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Category: Leadership & Team Building, Business Strategy, Focus, Habits & Productivity, Motivation & Self-Impro
Why Motivating People Doesn't Work ... and What Does by Susan Fowler - Book Summary
“Why Trying to Motivate Your Team Might Be the Problem”
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Title: Why Motivating People Doesn't Work ... and What Does
Author: Susan Fowler
Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement, Leadership & Team Building
Can you actually motivate another human being,
Never Lost Again by Bill Kilday - Book Summary
“How a Blue Dot Killed Getting Lost”
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Title: Never Lost Again
Author: Bill Kilday
Category: Technology & Innovation, AI, Data & the Future
What did we actually give up when getting lost stopped being possible? Sam and Sophie open the episode with that quest
People Over Profit by Dale Partridge - Book Summary
“Why Profit Is a Result, Not a Goal”
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Title: People Over Profit
Author: Dale Partridge
Category: Public Speaking & Communication, Career Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Startups & Entrepreneurship
Can a business actually put people first and stil
Enchantment by Katherine May - Book Summary
“Katherine May on Waking Up to the Wonder Already Around You”
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Title: Enchantment
Author: Katherine May
Category: Nature, Climate & Environment, Mindfulness & Wellbeing, Faith, Spirituality & Meaning, Personal Growth
When did you last feel genuinely enc
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Book Summary
“Incentives, Cheating, and the Hidden Side of Everything”
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Title: Freakonomics
Author: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Category: Economics & Global Markets
What if everything you think you know about why people do what they do is wrong? Sam and Sophie op
Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie - Book Summary
“Hannah Ritchie on Why the Data Says We're Not Doomed”
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Title: Not the End of the World
Author: Hannah Ritchie
Category: Learning & Education, Philosophy & Big Ideas, Culture & Society, Science & Discovery
What if the story you've been tol
Goals by Zig Ziglar - Book Summary
“You Can't Hit a Target You Can't See”
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Title: Goals
Author: Zig Ziglar
Category: Focus, Habits & Productivity, Learning & Education, Career Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement
Why do so many of us want to be successful but never actually ge
The Way Up by Errol L. Pierre with Jim Jermanok - Book Summary
“Why Hard Work Alone Isn't the Ladder”
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Title: The Way Up
Author: Errol L. Pierre with Jim Jermanok
Category: Career Growth
What if the ladder you've been climbing was never the right metaphor for getting ahead? Sam and Sophie open The Way Up with that qu
A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink - Book Summary
“Why the Future Belongs to Designers, Storytellers, and Empaths”
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Title: A Whole New Mind
Author: Daniel H. Pink
Category: Creativity & the Arts, Creativity in Business, Technology & Innovation
Is the age of the spreadsheet wizard actually over? Sam opens t
The Trial by Franz Kafka - Book Summary
“Kafka's The Trial: The Punishment Is the Process”
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Title: The Trial
Author: Franz Kafka
Category: Creativity & the Arts, Writing, Language & Storytelling, Philosophy & Big Ideas, Culture & Society
What if you were arrested tomorrow and no one
This Could Be Our Future by Yancey Strickler - Book Summary
“Bentoism, Billionaire Logic, and the Case for a Richer Life”
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Title: This Could Be Our Future
Author: Yancey Strickler
Category: Culture & Society, Startups & Entrepreneurship, Personal Finance & Investing, Mindfulness & Wellbeing
What if the only
Endurance by Alfred Lansing - Book Summary
“Shackleton Failed the Mission and Saved Every Man”
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Title: Endurance
Author: Alfred Lansing
Category: Leadership & Team Building, Memoirs & Life Stories, World History, Travel, Adventure & Exploration
What happens when the mission fails completely, the
Forgive by Timothy Keller - Book Summary
“Forgiveness Is Not a Feeling, It's a Debt You Choose to Pay”
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Title: Forgive
Author: Timothy Keller
Category: Faith, Spirituality & Meaning, Public Speaking & Communication, Psychology & Human Behavior, Mindfulness & Wellbeing
Why is forgivene
Electronic Value Exchange by David L. Stearns - Book Summary
“The Invisible Network Behind Every Swipe”
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Title: Electronic Value Exchange
Author: David L. Stearns
Category: Memoirs & Life Stories, Career Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Startups & Entrepreneurship
What if the most important technology of th
How to Change by Katy Milkman - Book Summary
“Why Willpower Is the Wrong Tool for Change”
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Title: How to Change
Author: Katy Milkman
Category: Psychology & Human Behavior, Focus, Habits & Productivity, Motivation & Self-Improvement
Why does change feel so hard when we want it so badly? Sam and Sop
Spark by John J. Ratey & Eric Hagerman - Book Summary
“Why Moving Your Body Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Brain”
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Title: Spark
Author: John J. Ratey & Eric Hagerman
Category: Psychology & Human Behavior, Culture & Society
What if the single best thing you could do for your brain today isn't a
Endless Customers by Marcus Sheridan - Book Summary
“Stop Chasing, Start Teaching: The Trust Bank That Never Runs Dry”
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Title: Endless Customers
Author: Marcus Sheridan
Category: Career Growth, Startups & Entrepreneurship, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Sales, Branding & Marketing
What if the best sales
The Purpose Myth by Charlotte Cramer - Book Summary
“Stop Searching, Start Building: The Case Against Your One True Calling”
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Title: The Purpose Myth
Author: Charlotte Cramer
Category: Career Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Mindfulness & Wellbeing, Workplace & Company Culture
What if the whole ide
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté - Book Summary
“Why We're All a Little Bit Addicted”
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Title: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Author: Gabor Maté
Category: Science & Discovery, Psychology & Human Behavior, Mindfulness & Wellbeing, Culture & Society
What if addiction isn't a moral failing a
What the Eyes Don't See by Mona Hanna-Attisha - Book Summary
“The Pediatrician Who Refused to Look Away”
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Title: What the Eyes Don't See
Author: Mona Hanna-Attisha
Category: Culture & Society, Memoirs & Life Stories
What happens when a pediatrician notices something in her own hospital's blood data that the
The Vitamin Solution by Romy Block and Arielle Levitan - Book Summary
“Why Your Supplement Cabinet Is Probably Lying to You”
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Title: The Vitamin Solution
Author: Romy Block and Arielle Levitan
Category: Health, Food & Nutrition, Mindfulness & Wellbeing
Did this book make you want to throw out your entire supplement cabinet? S
The World for Sale by Javier Blas, Jack Farchy - Book Summary
“The Traders Who Move the World's Stuff”
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Title: The World for Sale
Author: Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
Category: Economics & Global Markets, Personal Finance & Investing, Nature, Climate & Environment
Did you know there's a hidden layer of the g
I'm So Effing Tired by Amy Shah - Book Summary
“Why Sleep Alone Won't Fix Your Exhaustion”
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Title: I'm So Effing Tired
Author: Amy Shah
Category: Health, Food & Nutrition, Psychology & Human Behavior, Mindfulness & Wellbeing, Culture & Society
Sam opens by asking Sophie the question a
How to Stop Procrastinating by Steve Scott - Book Summary
“Procrastination Is an Emotion Problem, Not a Time Problem”
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Title: How to Stop Procrastinating
Author: Steve Scott
Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement, Focus, Habits & Productivity, Career Growth, Personal Growth
Sam opens by asking Sophie whether she
The Plant-Based Athlete by Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke - Book Summary
“What Happens When Athletes Ditch the Steak and Hit the Garden”
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Title: The Plant-Based Athlete
Author: Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke
Category: Health, Food & Nutrition, Culture & Society
Can you actually build muscle, recover faster, and train harder on p
Resolute Japan by Jusuke Jj Ikegami, Harbir Singh, Michael Useem - Book Summary
“Why Patient Capital and Purpose Beat the Quarterly Hustle”
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Title: Resolute Japan
Author: Jusuke Jj Ikegami, Harbir Singh, Michael Useem
Category: Leadership & Team Building, Business Strategy, Career Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement
What if the way J
Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI for Beginners by David M. Patel - Book Summary
“The Grammar of Everything”
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Title: Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI for Beginners
Author: David M. Patel
Category: Technology & Innovation, Career Growth, AI, Data & the Future, Motivation & Self-Improvement
Did this book make you feel better
Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish - Book Summary
“Why Your Brain Sabotages You and How to Stop It”
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Title: Clear Thinking
Author: Shane Parrish
Category: Psychology & Human Behavior, Decision-Making & Critical Thinking, Focus, Habits & Productivity, Learning & Education
Why does your brain seem to
The Inflamed Mind by Edward Bullmore - Book Summary
“Depression, Inflammation, and the Body-Mind Connection”
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Title: The Inflamed Mind
Author: Edward Bullmore
Category: Health, Food & Nutrition
What if depression isn't a brain disorder at all, but something your immune system is doing? Sam and Sophie sit wi
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace - Book Summary
“Why Pixar Built a Fear Reduction Machine”
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Title: Creativity, Inc.
Author: Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
Category: Creativity & the Arts, Business Strategy, Leadership & Team Building
What if the problem was never a shortage of good ideas, but everything tha
Gamification for Business by Sune Gudiksen, Jake Inlove - Book Summary
“Why Slapping Points on Work Backfires”
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Title: Gamification for Business
Author: Sune Gudiksen, Jake Inlove
Category: Workplace & Company Culture, Business Strategy, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Creativity in Business
Why does work so rarely feel like a
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig - Book Summary
“Matt Haig on Surviving the Darkness and Finding Reasons to Stay”
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Title: Reasons to Stay Alive
Author: Matt Haig
Category: Psychology & Human Behavior, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Mindfulness & Wellbeing, Memoirs & Life Stories
What do you do wh
Second Treatise of the Government by John Locke - Book Summary
“Locke's Radical Idea: Government as a Servant, Not a Master”
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Title: Second Treatise of the Government
Author: John Locke
Category: Politics & Current Affairs, Philosophy & Big Ideas
What if government only exists because we agreed to it — and what ha
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance - Book Summary
“The Man Who Traded Happiness for Impact”
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Title: Elon Musk
Author: Ashlee Vance
Category: Memoirs & Life Stories, Startups & Entrepreneurship
What does it actually cost a person to change the world? Sam and Sophie open Ashlee Vance's biography of Elon
Boss It by Carl Reader - Book Summary
“Why You Don't Need Permission to Be the Boss”
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Title: Boss It
Author: Carl Reader
Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement, Focus, Habits & Productivity, Business Strategy, Startups & Entrepreneurship
What if the boss thing was never a job title at
Mastering Executive Transitions by Navid Nazemian - Book Summary
“The First Hundred Days and the Myth of Hitting the Ground Running”
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Title: Mastering Executive Transitions
Author: Navid Nazemian
Category: Career Growth, Business Strategy, Leadership & Team Building, Motivation & Self-Improvement
Why does a book about ex
How Economics Explains the World by Andrew Leigh - Book Summary
“The Invisible Hand Behind Everything”
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Title: How Economics Explains the World
Author: Andrew Leigh
Category: Culture & Society, Economics & Global Markets
What if every war, empire, and invention was really just supply and demand wearing a costume? Sam an
I Am the Storm by Janice Dean - Book Summary
“Janice Dean on Becoming the Storm Instead of Just Surviving It”
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Title: I Am the Storm
Author: Janice Dean
Category: Memoirs & Life Stories, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Philosophy & Big Ideas, Economics & Global Markets
What if the worst storms
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham and comments by Jason Zweig - Book Summary
“Mr. Market, Margin of Safety, and Learning to Be Boring”
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Title: The Intelligent Investor
Author: Benjamin Graham and comments by Jason Zweig
Category: Personal Finance & Investing
What if the market isn't a judge handing down verdicts, but a moody busine
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier - Book Summary
“Seven Questions That Get You Out of Firefighting Mode”
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Title: The Coaching Habit
Author: Michael Bungay Stanier
Category: Leadership & Team Building
What if the most useful thing you said in a meeting today was a question you already knew the answer to — and
Newsjacking by David Meerman Scott - Book Summary
“Riding the Breaking News Wave Without Wiping Out”
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Title: Newsjacking
Author: David Meerman Scott
Category: Sales, Branding & Marketing, Culture & Society
What if the biggest marketing opportunity of your year is breaking on the news right now, and you hav
Junglekeeper by Paul Rosolie - Book Summary
“One Man, Thirty Days Alone, and the Jaguar That Changed Everything”
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Title: Junglekeeper
Author: Paul Rosolie
Category: Personal Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Focus, Habits & Productivity, Faith, Spirituality & Meaning
What happens when a rest
Death by Meeting by Patrick M. Lencioni - Book Summary
“Why the Meeting Isn't the Problem, and What Four Meetings Fix Everything”
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Title: Death by Meeting
Author: Patrick M. Lencioni
Category: Personal Finance & Investing, Leadership & Team Building, Public Speaking & Communication, Workplace & Com
The Man I Knew by Jean Becker - Book Summary
“George H. W. Bush, the Letters, and the Case for Decency”
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Title: The Man I Knew
Author: Jean Becker
Category: Memoirs & Life Stories, Politics & Current Affairs
What does a president do after losing an election and leaving the White House for good? Jean B
Titan by Ron Chernow - Book Summary
“The Man Who Built an Empire and Gave It All Away”
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Title: Titan
Author: Ron Chernow
Category: Memoirs & Life Stories
How do you hold a man in your head who crushed competitors without blinking and taught Sunday school every week? Sam and Sophie open Ron Cherno
The Breakfast Club for 40-Somethings by Vanessa Stoykov - Book Summary
“The Forties Are a Renovation, Not a Crisis”
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Title: The Breakfast Club for 40-Somethings
Author: Vanessa Stoykov
Category: Personal Finance & Investing, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Personal Growth
What if the forties aren't a crisis at all, but a r
The Power of Discord by Ed Tronick, Claudia M. Gold - Book Summary
“Why the Fight Is the Relationship”
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Title: The Power of Discord
Author: Ed Tronick, Claudia M. Gold
Category: Personal Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Love, Dating & Relationships, Public Speaking & Communication
Is a good relationship one that
Being Thomas Jefferson by Andrew Burstein - Book Summary
“The Contradictions of the Man Who Wrote 'All Men Are Created Equal'”
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Title: Being Thomas Jefferson
Author: Andrew Burstein
Category: World History, Politics & Current Affairs, Philosophy & Big Ideas, Memoirs & Life Stories
How do you hold a
Will It Fly? by Pat Flynn - Book Summary
“Testing the Dream Before You Build It”
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Title: Will It Fly?
Author: Pat Flynn
Category: Startups & Entrepreneurship, Creativity in Business, Technology & Innovation
What if the most dangerous moment in your business isn't failure, but the honeymoon ph
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto by Blair Enns - Book Summary
“Why the Best Creative Pros Stop Pitching Cold”
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Title: The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
Author: Blair Enns
Category: Career Growth, Startups & Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Motivation & Self-Improvement
Why does the way creative professionals sell
Areté by Brian C. Johnson - Book Summary
“Living Like Areté Is a Verb, Not a Badge”
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Author: Brian C. Johnson
Category: Career Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Personal Growth, Focus, Habits & Productivity
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Author: Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Category: World History
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“Why Willpower Is Overrated and Your Kitchen Is Running Your Life”
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Title: Good Habits, Bad Habits
Author: Wendy Wood
Category: Psychology & Human Behavior, Focus, Habits & Productivity, Motivation & Self-Improvement, Personal Growth
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“Confidence Is a Muscle, Not a Gift”
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Category: Personal Growth
Sam opens the episode with a question that most of us have felt: did this book hit you as hard as it hit me? Because The Confidence Code
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Author: Albert Einstein
Category: Science & Discovery, Nature, Climate & Environment
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Author: Shaka Senghor
Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement, Career Growth, Personal Growth, Psychology & Human Behavior
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“Adam Rutherford's Genome: The Tangled Family Tree of Everyone”
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Author: Adam Rutherford
Category: Science & Discovery, Culture & Society, Nature, Climate & Environment
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“Catherine Gray on Why Being Fine Is a Triumph”
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Title: The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary
Author: Catherine Gray
Category: Mindfulness & Wellbeing, Psychology & Human Behavior, Science & Discovery
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“Judith Valente's Field Guide to the Soul, Written in Soil and Birdsong”
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Title: How to Live
Author: Judith Valente
Category: Mindfulness & Wellbeing, Faith, Spirituality & Meaning, Personal Growth
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Yes, And by Kelly Leonard & Tom Yorton - Book Summary
“Improv as a Business Operating System”
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Title: Yes, And
Author: Kelly Leonard & Tom Yorton
Category: Public Speaking & Communication, Learning & Education, Startups & Entrepreneurship
What if two words could run a team better than any management fr
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“Why Your Greatest Rival Might Be Your Best Teacher”
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Title: The Art of Rivalry
Author: Sebastian Smee
Category: World History, Creativity in Business, Technology & Innovation, Career Growth
What if the person who makes you most uncomfortable is the one who mak
The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley - Book Summary
“Why Nobody Actually Invented Anything”
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Title: The Evolution of Everything
Author: Matt Ridley
Category: Culture & Society
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