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Welcome to Synopsia Reads, your go-to podcast for insightful book summaries, powerful quotes, and actionable takeaways that make personal growth achievable, one episode at a time.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 186 episodes
- Tiny Habits · 25 minA deep dive into Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg. Only three paths lead to lasting change: having an epiphany, changing your environment, or changing your habits in small steps. The first…
- The Road Less Traveled · 23 minA deep dive into The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck. Life is difficult. Once that sentence is accepted, it stops weighing on us: what makes existence unbearable is not the…
- The Power of Habit · 25 minA deep dive into The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. More than 40% of the actions we perform each day are not decisions at all but habits: the figure comes from a 2006 paper by…
- A Technique for Producing Ideas · 24 minA deep dive into A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young. Where the charts showed nothing but deep sea, an islet rises, which had the air of magic for sailors of old…
- Getting More · 26 minA deep dive into Getting More by Stuart Diamond. Negotiation is not a specialist's affair, confined to boardrooms and salary talks. Every time people interact there is…
- Originals · 33 minA deep dive into Originals by Adam Grant. Some 30,000 call center agents at banks, airlines and mobile carriers were studied by the economist Michael Housman for Cornerstone…
- Creativity, Inc. · 26 minA deep dive into Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull. Hand a good idea to a mediocre team and the result is spoiled; hand a mediocre idea to a brilliant team and they will either fix…
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen · 22 minA deep dive into How to Talk So Kids Will Listen by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish. What a child feels and what a child does are directly connected. A child who feels right behaves…
- The Charisma Myth · 15 minA deep dive into The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane. Charisma passes for a gift, received at birth or never. Summer 1955, Grand Central Terminal in New York: Marilyn Monroe…
- Made to Stick · 25 minA deep dive into Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath. An idea that sticks is one that is understood, remembered, and able to change the way people think or act. Urban legends…
- Steve Jobs · 25 minA deep dive into Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Behind the fence in the Los Altos garden, the wood is as carefully finished as it is out front. "No one will ever know," protests…
- Educated · 14 minA deep dive into Educated by Tara Westover. Seven years old, standing on the abandoned red railcar beside the barn at the foot of Buck's Peak, in Idaho. Tara Westover was born on…
- Thinking in Systems · 26 minA deep dive into Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows. Place a Slinky on an open palm, hold it at the top, then take away the hand underneath: it drops, springs back…
- The Gene · 24 minA deep dive into The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Sixty-two years separate the peas of the walled garden in Brno, whose results Mendel presented in 1865 after sowings begun in…
- Spark · 24 minA deep dive into Spark by John J. Ratey. Feeling better after a run has little to do with discharging tension. The relief is real, but the essential thing happens elsewhere…
- Why We Get Fat · 25 minA deep dive into Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes. Hilde Bruch, a German pediatrician who settled in New York in 1934, was astonished by the number of obese children she encountered…
- The Innovator's Dilemma · 25 minA deep dive into The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. Sears is held up as a model by Fortune in 1964, at the exact moment it lets discounting and home centers pass it…
- The Power of Now · 22 minA deep dive into The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. A beggar has been sitting at the side of a road for more than thirty years. A stranger walks up, and he holds out his hand. I…
- Salt: A World History · 25 minA deep dive into Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky. Salt is the only rock we eat. It is a mineral, neither plant nor animal, and the body demands it so insistently that…
- 1491 · 23 minA deep dive into 1491 by Charles C. Mann. In the early 1940s, the anthropologist Allan R. Holmberg lived among the Sirionó, in the Bolivian province of Beni, and in 1950…
