Short Book Summaries

We are driven by cravings (even more than outcomes). Cues drive habits. Therefore, cues must generate strong cravings to become…

The Enlightenment gave birth to a renewed focus on science, reason and human flourishing. Scientific improvements in agriculture created less…

The self is an illusion. Consciousness cannot be. We discover the transitory nature of our thoughts in consciousness through meditation.…

“We are intuitively poor investors.” Jason Zweig says this in Chapter 1. Zweig leans heavily on the work of Kahneman…

Lieber shares creative, funny and real stories he’s collected from families across the country that encourage smart spending, saving, donating,…

Habits are like atoms — the building blocks of our lives. We become our habits and with more effective habits,…

Essentialists bring forth more by being intentional about exactly what they choose to work on. Essentialists choose what to do…

Build a business that solves a unique problem that real people have. And that no-one else is trying to solve.…

Our brains continuously lie to us. Our memories are faulty and deceive us. We overestimate the good in events, skewing…

There is one infinite game. There are myriad finite games within the infinite game. But unlike finite games, the infinite…