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No time to listen? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Gin Stephens' Fast. Feast. Repeat. in 23 minutes or less.

Get the main key ideas from this summary of Emily Oster’s Expecting Better in just a short listen. 

Get the main key insights from this summary of William Strauss and Neil Howe’s The Fourth Turning in just a short listen.

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from Summary of Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited in 23 minutes or less.

Do you keep getting ever so close to making a sale, before the prospect declines? If so, it might benefit you to learn a secret or two about the sales profession. In Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale (1985, reissued 2004), you will learn several crucial tricks that will help you get to that close. Did you know that one of the main reasons salespeople don’t get their close is because they never actually ask their prospects if they want to buy? Ziglar helps you avoid this, and several other common mistakes.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of John Gordon’s The Energy Bus in 23 minutes or less. Positive people and positive teams manifest positive outcomes. The key ingredient? Positive energy. In The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy (2007), Jon Gordon explains how to cultivate positive energy in your life and career, which you then can share with your coworkers, customers, organization, team, friends, and family. Gordon uses the extended metaphor of a bus you are driving to make his points, hence the title.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me in 23 minutes or less.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library in 23 minutes or less. In the fictional story The Midnight Library (2020), Nora Seed, a woman in her mid 30s, experiences all the alternate paths which she had left behind in favor of others. What if she had never given up swimming? Would she have liked her life better as a professional swimmer? What if she had been a glaciologist instead of a student of philosophy? What if she had stayed with her ex-fiancé?

As a small business owner, your business is the clearest reflection of who you are and what you want from life. Michael E. Gerber explains this and more in The E-Myth Revisited. Step by step, Gerber shows how to shift your focus away from what your business is producing, and toward how well your business is producing it for your customers. 

In Don’t Drop the Mic (2021), best-selling author Bishop T.D. Jakes explores the art of communication and how the way we speak and interact with others can be part of our everyday ministries. He clarifies why our manner of speaking and the words we use matter, and offers practical advice on how to craft your message to connect with listeners, whether it's a simple email or a high-profile speech.

When Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, started his company, it was so small that he was able to be with his employees every step of the way. He was guiding them into following his leadership principles, monitoring every decision they had to make. In 2004, when the company had grown far beyond its initial size, Robin Andrulevich from human resources began compiling a list of Amazon’s most important leadership principles. She interviewed the most valuable and successful leaders the company had, and ended up compiling 14 principles.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Liz Wiseman's Multipliers, revised and updated in 23 minutes or less.

In The Comfort Crisis (2021), Michal Easter explains why it’s so important to shut down the outside world and reconnect with nature, for all the benefits it provides for our relationships and our physical and mental health. The world we live in today is embedded in comfort, routine, and fake pleasures. It tries to shift our priorities and alter them, by keeping us focused on the hustle of our daily lives. 

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No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Stacey Abrams’s While Justice Sleeps in 23 minutes or less. In While Justice Sleeps (2021), Stacey Abrams narrates a thrilling tale of a brilliant young lawyer with an eidetic memory who saves the world through her loyalty to a man others had deemed insane. The novel follows Avery Keene as she deciphers the cryptic messages left to her by Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn before he went into a coma. Avery discovers shocking secrets of biological warfare and genetic engineering that had been kept hidden.

Get the main key insights from this summary of Dr. Joe Dispenza’s You Are the Placebo in just a short listen. 

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance in 23 minutes or less. Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance.

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No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Head in 23 minutes or less. Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Head (2020) offers faith-based tips and techniques for taking charge of thoughts that spin out of control. We tend to dwell on things that we wish were different, yet this merely deepens our emotional emptiness. 

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from this Summary of Dave Asprey’s Fast This Way in 23 minutes or less.