Drive — Summary

Extrinsic motivation Extrinsic motivation is motivation which comes from outside ourselves. It comes in two flavors, pain, and pleasure or punishment and reward, aka. "The stick and the carrot." Once, some 50.000 years ago, man's main driver was his own ...

The future of the mind — Summary

Learn about the future of our mind from the prominent visionary and physicist Michio Kaku While humanity started exploring space some four hundred years ago thanks to the invention of the telescope. Starting to have an idea of the vastness ...

Elon Musk — Summary

Get inspired by one of the most successful entrepreneurs and visionaries ever Suffering characterized Musk's childhood and later life Musk had a difficult upbringing in South Africa. Problems with his father and bullying by his classmates were the norm ...

Machine Learning — Summary

This book will teach you a solid understanding about the basics of Machine Learning The silent revolution in Computer Science In the last decades, there has been a silent revolution in the field of Computer Science. Our daily lives are ...

The tipping point — Summary

This book will teach you how little things can have a big impact when the time and circumstances are right Ideas spread exponentially once the tipping point is reached Social epidemics and viral infections have something in common. Just as ...

The art of thinking clearly — Summary

Learn how irrational our behavior is, and use that knowledge to make better decisions. Let's start to analyze our thinking and search for flaws in our reasoning. Overestimation Studies have shown that we tend to overestimate our abilities. The result ...

Manage Yourself — Summary

This book will teach you how to become the CEO of your life. There was a time when people didn't have that many options. They just had to do what they were told or what the circumstances they lived ...

Follow your gut — Summary

Learn how important our gut is to our health and brainIt is estimated that our body contains about 100 trillion microbial cells. In this book, you will learn the important role those microbes have on our health.The human microbiomeThe human microbiota is ...

Mistakes were made, how we justify bad decisions — Summary

Learn why it is important and in our best interest to admit our mistakes People tend to justify their mistakes Cognitive dissonance is the term used to describe the uneasiness people feel when they have two conflicting ideas or views. After making ...

Bad Science — Summary

Learn how the media and big pharma manipulate Science to represent their interests. Bad science for profit Companies make use of people’s ignorance or unwillingness to check the facts, to mislead them with bad science. Bad science is used to ...

Think and grow rich — Summary

Learn from the classic book of Success “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.” — Napoleon Hill Desire ...

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth — Summary

Learn about preparation from one of the people who are the best at preparation, an astronaut The author explains in an entertaining way and great detail the arduous but fascinating path to becoming an astronaut. If you want to ...