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Edison
- De: Edmund Morris
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 25 h y 5 m
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Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only for the gift of universal electric light. His invention of the first practical incandescent lamp 140 years ago so dazzled the world - already reeling from his invention of the phonograph and dozens of other revolutionary devices - that it cast a shadow over his later achievements. In all, this near-deaf genius patented 1,093 inventions, not including others, such as the X-ray fluoroscope, that he left unlicensed for the benefit of medicine.
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Editors should stand up to Pulitzer winner
- De Porter en 12-03-19
- Edison
- De: Edmund Morris
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
Fascinating content but in bizarre order
Revisado: 03-10-25
The content was absolutely fascinating, from his early life as a morse code operator, through his excitement during the invention of the light bulb and the phonograph and many others, and all the way through in great detail to the huge honours that USA heaped upon him at the end of his life.
The order of the material was completely bizarre (hence my 1 star for Story), starting at the end of his life and working backwards. It was even worse than that, as each 10 year chunk was in a forward direction and then you jumped back 20 years, to then go forward another 10 years. What on earth was the author and the publishers thinking? It makes no sense whatsoever reading a biography from the end of a person's life backwards. I hated it so much that I ended up listening to the book in reverse order. This was super annoying to have to control (especially if listening in the car), and I never had any idea how much was left to listen to in the book. It would be a trivial thing to fix too, by just putting the chapters in true chronological order.
The content is well worth the effort, but the frustrating listening experience is a real shame.
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The 5AM Club
- Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
- De: Robin Sharma
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept more than 20 years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity. Now, in this life-changing guide, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness, and feelings of aliveness.
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An absolute waste of time!!
- De Sheldon Baranec en 01-22-19
- The 5AM Club
- Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
- De: Robin Sharma
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
Cringeworthy disappointment
Revisado: 10-05-24
I was really expecting something challenging and useful from this book, as I thought this was a bestseller. Instead, it scaffolds the idea of getting up at 5 a.m. around a cringeworthy story of a so-called spellbinder and an embarrassingly cliché and unbelievable billionaire who apparently does 1000 press-ups every day. Into the mouths of these characters are put poetically nice-sounding, but mostly worthless cringeworthy babble. They say ridiculous things like "We must live our luminous nature, and magnify our sovereign selves." or "You must start your pilgrimage to a territory called legacy." or "Today, and this very moment", the Spellbinder declares "deserves your commitment to become sublimely creative, pristinely productive, decadently decent, and of service to many. Please stop postponing your mastery, no longer resist your primal power, …the light of your most luminous self…".
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The E-Myth Revisited
- Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
- De: Michael E. Gerber
- Narrado por: Michael E. Gerber
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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In this audio edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.
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Saved my Life
- De Christine en 09-17-08
- The E-Myth Revisited
- Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
- De: Michael E. Gerber
- Narrado por: Michael E. Gerber
Useful insights for entrepreneurs
Revisado: 09-14-24
Firstly, let's make the title clear. The title E-Myth Revisited is rather confusing, because I think of E standing for Electronic (e.g. and e-cigarette is an electronic cigarette), whereas here the E stands for Entrepreneur, so E-Myth is Entrepreneur Myth.
The book is firstly to help entrepreneurs to clearly understand the differences between being a technician (e.g. baker, accountant, widget maker) and an entrepreneur when going into business. This it does extremely well, making very clear why many small businesses get into trouble. It then guides the entrepreneur through the steps needed to make whatever business as turn-key as possible.
The book switches back and forth between theoretical ideas and a dialogue with an imaginary baker in business. This format I think works well, helping root the theoretical concepts in a concrete example.
If you are a small business owner, or planning to become one, I would definitely recommend this book.
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Outlive
- The Science and Art of Longevity
- De: Peter Attia MD, Bill Gifford - contributor
- Narrado por: Peter Attia MD
- Duración: 17 h y 7 m
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Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health.
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Too Much Filler
- De J. Badaracco en 04-09-23
- Outlive
- The Science and Art of Longevity
- De: Peter Attia MD, Bill Gifford - contributor
- Narrado por: Peter Attia MD
The older you are, the more you should read this
Revisado: 08-31-24
This book is about how to live longer (lifespan) and, in particular, with a much better quality of life (healthspan) in the last decade(s) of life. The normally accepted path is for life to get worse and worse as we get older; this book is about trying to keep much healthier for longer, so we can enjoy the last decade(s) rather than simply enduring them. This book gives plenty of incentive (the why), and also plenty of actions to take (the how). The main negative I have with the book is that, for my liking, it sometimes goes into way too much medical detail, detail that I just don't really want or need. Overall though, even though this can be a heavy read at some points, I would strongly recommend it. In particular, the older you are, the more you should read it.
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Atlas of the Heart
- Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
- De: Brené Brown
- Narrado por: Brené Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 87 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances - a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.
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Perfect
- De Mandy en 02-16-22
- Atlas of the Heart
- Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
- De: Brené Brown
- Narrado por: Brené Brown
Interesting, but quite heavy-going
Revisado: 02-17-24
This was interesting, but rather heavy going. It was like attending university lectures about emotions. This book could equally be titled "Dictionary of Emotions", as it is basically a detailed walk-through of 80+ different emotions we experience. So, if you are expecting something like the Brené Brown funny/moving Ted Talk, you're probably better choosing something else, but if you don't mind a bit of hard work to learn about all the different emotions we experience, then this could be for you.
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Earth's Changing Climate
- De: Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Richard Wolfson
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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Whatever your views on climate change, it's important to understand how the current scientific consensus on global warming evolved out of basic physical principles and a broad range of observations. This lucid series of 12 lectures is designed to do exactly that-reviewing the most up-to-date research and explaining the concepts, tools, data, and analysis that have led an overwhelming number of climate scientists to conclude that Earth is indeed warming and that we humans are in great part responsible.
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Needs Reference material
- De Richard en 03-08-14
- Earth's Changing Climate
- De: Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Richard Wolfson
Interesting and valuable, but not riveting
Revisado: 09-18-23
The subject matter makes this an extremely important book. The presentation is quite interesting, but not riveting.
A major annoyance is the repeated description of graphs which are being shown to the lecture audience, but we, as just listeners cannot of course see. Even in the accompanying 87-page PDF the graphs are not shown in-line with the chapters, are only in black-and-white, and are often aligned vertically for a horizontal image making them very hard to read. The whole point of an audio book though is that I want to listen to a book, not read it, so the numerous graphs being described is super-annoying when just listening.
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Mere Christianity
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis' forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality, Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of the religion.
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A Classic That Gets Better & Better With Time!
- De Tim en 05-14-05
- Mere Christianity
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Howard
extremely thought-provoking
Revisado: 09-06-23
This book is like attending a serious of University theology lectures with one of the most gifted communicators possible. It's extremely though-provoking, but very comprehensible.
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Born to Win: The Ultimate Seminar
- De: Zig Ziglar
- Narrado por: Zig Ziglar
- Duración: 2 h y 5 m
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For more than 50 years, in a style that is unquestionably his own, Zig Ziglar has used his quick wit, down-home charm, and abundance of energy to inspire excellence in people throughout the world. In Born to Win, Zig's nonstop passion inspires and informs as Zig speaks to you as if you're sitting front-row center in his sold-out seminar.
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Exactly what I needed.
- De chewtoy8 en 01-12-15
- Born to Win: The Ultimate Seminar
- De: Zig Ziglar
- Narrado por: Zig Ziglar
Great, but short, and a bit disjointed
Revisado: 05-31-23
I love Zig Ziglar, but this title is very short (only just over 2 hours), so I would definitely choose for his longer works. It's also a mash up of different presentations, so overall it's a bit disjointed. What he says is great, but there are better titles of his available: full length and more properly structured.
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How Technology Influences Language
- De: James Pfrehm, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: James Pfrehm
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
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To be human in today’s world means that you engage in constant linguistic interactions with some form of technology, from your smart phone to your refrigerator. That’s not as new a trend as you might think. Language has shaped - and been shaped by - some of our world’s most significant communication technologies. Our current language bears the marks of millennia of interaction between humans and our technologies, beginning with the very first primitive writing systems and moving into the age of the printing press, the telegraph, and the typewriter.
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Excellent and entertaining
- De Marta en 01-26-22
- How Technology Influences Language
- De: James Pfrehm, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: James Pfrehm
Just a bit dull
Revisado: 11-12-21
There's nothing strongly wrong about this, but I found it just a bit dull. It's a bit like a course at University which you have to take, but isn't really very interesting. There are some interesting nuggets, such as the details of the history of the telephone, but overall not really enough to make it worth a strong recommendation.
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Liminal Thinking
- Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think
- De: Dave Gray, Richard Saul Wurman - foreword
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 3 h y 9 m
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Why do some people succeed at change while others fail? It's the way they think! Liminal thinking is a way to create change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now? You have a choice. You can create the world you want to live in or live in a world created by others. If you are ready to start making changes, listen to this book.
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- De Amazon Customer en 09-21-20
- Liminal Thinking
- Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think
- De: Dave Gray, Richard Saul Wurman - foreword
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
A lot of important-sounding phrases
Revisado: 08-22-21
I listened to it completely twice and didn't really get anything much from it. It seemed to have a lot of important-sounding phrases, but not much that I thought, "Hey, that's great". Here's a sample: "It [liminal thinking] opens the door to a world of contingency, where events and meanings, indeed, reality itself can be molded and carried in different directions." I didn't find the stories or the proposed behaviour resonated with me. "Liminal thinking owes a great debt to Jainism and Buddhism...". Maybe your experience with the book will be more positive.
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