The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Can’t Hurt Me is a book that tells a brutally honest story of the tough life of David Goggins. How he transitioned from an overweight thug to an unbreakable Navy SEAL who’s running 100 miles for breakfast. What are the lessons learned from this remarkable transformation and tips on how you can become better, faster, stronger yourself. The Core Idea You can make it work. Even when things are hard and you think […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Talent has nothing to do with success. If you want results, you have to become a gritty person. What’s grit? A combination of unshakeable focus, long-term perseverance, and a never give up attitude. How to gain those? That’s the whole point of the book. Grit by Angela Duckworth is full of scientific studies and real-life examples from the lives of successful people who are at the very top of their field. All of […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: How Derek Sivers, the founder of CD Baby, now the largest online distributor of independent music in the world, started the company. How it became so big – though he didn’t want it to grow. How he later sold it for $22 million, and what are the lessons learned. The Core Idea: Instead of trying to build this huge business that will devour other companies alike, try to make it small. Don’t do […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: A book based on the realization that we systematically fail to think clearly. After meeting Nassim Taleb, a desire to understand heuristics and biases boomed in the author’s mind and lead to a transition. From a novelist, Rolf Dobelli became a student of social and cognitive psychology. This book is a compilation of 99 systematic cognitive errors (thinking errors) that aim to give you the upper hand in any given situation. The Core […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: A collection of lectures and scientific papers organized to answer a simple question: How does one achieve self-fulfillment? How can you satisfy your higher inner needs and reach the ultimate, final, state of affairs? In this book, professor Abraham Maslow shares in a relatively understandable language his study of human behavior and achieving psychological freedom. The Core Idea: Here, in Toward a Psychology of Being, Professor Maslow argues that most of us are […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: You spend a decade performing tasks you secretly believe are worthless? You’re not alone. In this book, David Graeber argues that instead of reducing the working hours, so we can spend more time doing what we love, we have collectively chosen to have access to more shiny but insignificant things. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory includes a series of interviews of people who openly share how their jobs feel – and actually are – […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: A productivity book full of short absurd-sounding tactics that promise to change how you use technology. In Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day, the two authors will help you divorce the attention-grabbing infinity pools – i.e. noisy sites and social media – and make you less busy and less distracted. A great read that will remind you what to prioritize plus show you how to design a life absent […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Super Thinking is exactly what the title entails – a big book that lists a wide variety of mental models. What exactly are mental models? Set of frameworks, thinking scripts, that promise to radically reduce the time you need to make a decision. Gabriel Weinberg, who happens to be the CEO of DuckDuckGo, does a wonderful job explaining these frameworks. He adds context and real-life examples to make it easy for readers to […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: This is madness! According to the text, over 45% of undergraduates display serious signs of depression. The reason? Lack of purpose and direction. Thankfully, we have The Path to Purpose by William Damon. This short book aims to give parents the tools and the vocabulary to help their kids find meaning in life. The studies, and the in-depth interviews shared inside, will encourage students (and not only) to successfully discover, define, and pursue […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Wondering why two people with the same set of experiences behave differently in a situation? You’re not the only one. In this book, Daniel Nettle uncovers the differences between us. According to the researches shared inside, there are five big personality types (a.k.a the Big Five): Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious, Agreeableness, and Openness. By categorizing them, the author wants to help us spot both our negative and positive sides. This way, we can reduce […]