Five Minute Reads
Bestselling books summarized in five minutes, with one thing to actually do about it.
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Robert Greene’s first 9 laws are about you, and every summary skips them
The Laws of Human Nature has 18 laws, split into parts.
The Laws of Human Nature has 18 laws, split into parts. Part 1 is titled “Mastering Yourself,” and it runs for half the book.
Jim Simons beat Buffett’s returns 3 to 1 and has a quarter of the money
The book circulates as a set of attitudes.
The book circulates as a set of attitudes. Be humble. Be patient. Know what enough looks like. Every summary of it reads like a list of things to feel.
Covey read 200 years of success books before writing a single habit
The most quoted line in The 7 Habits isn't Viktor Frankl's. Covey found it in a library and lost the source.
Before he wrote anything, Stephen Covey spent his doctoral work reading success literature published in the United States since 17...
The Book of Enoch is in a Bible, and my 5-part reading map shows which one
11 Aramaic copies turned up at Qumran. The section everyone quotes is the one that wasn't there.
The Book of Enoch has been canonical scripture in Ethiopia for around 1,600 years. It still is. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the...
Kishimi's separation of tasks is a 7-day audit, not permission to stop caring
A young man goes to a philosopher’s room to destroy his argument.
A young man goes to a philosopher’s room to destroy his argument. He thinks the old man is peddling something dangerous, and he says so in the first 5 minutes.
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