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Todd Herman

Book Summary | The Alter Ego Effect

Performance coach Todd Herman shows how a deliberately built 'secret identity' can bring your best self out in the moments that matter most.

Mindset
Psychology
9 min read
Mel Robbins

Book Summary | The High 5 Habit

Mel Robbins argues that high-fiving your own reflection every morning can quiet self-criticism and teach you to back yourself the way you back everyone else.

Habits
Mindset
9 min read
Mel Robbins

Book Summary | The Let Them Theory

Mel Robbins argues that two words, Let Them, free you from managing other people, and two more, Let Me, put your energy back into the only thing you control: yourself.

Mindset
Relationships
7 min read
Rhonda Byrne

Book Summary | The Secret

Rhonda Byrne's blockbuster guide to the law of attraction, which teaches that your thoughts and feelings draw matching experiences into your life, and offers ask, believe, receive as the way to use it.

Mindset
Faith and Spirituality
6 min read
Steven Pressfield

Book Summary | The War of Art

Steven Pressfield names the inner enemy that keeps us from our real work, Resistance, and shows how to beat it by turning pro and showing up every day.

Creativity
Mindset
10 min read
Michael J. Sullivan

Book Summary | Theft of Swords

Two mismatched rogues take a too-good-to-be-true job to steal a sword, get framed for a king's murder, and stumble into a conspiracy and an ancient war that could reshape their world.

Epic Fantasy
Friendship
9 min read
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Book Summary | Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jon Kabat-Zinn's gentle classic on mindfulness: how to stop living on autopilot and pay attention to the only moment you have, on the cushion and at the kitchen sink.

Mental Health
Stress
8 min read
Shiv Khera

Book Summary | You Can Win

Shiv Khera's step-by-step case that success is learned: begin with attitude, then build self-esteem, people skills, habits, goals and values on top of it.

Mindset
8 min read

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