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  • Have you ever left a great book unfinished? Instead, learn or review the key takeaways of bestselling nonfiction, personal development and business books in minutes, instead of hours or never. For Free. Get through your stack of unfinished books or meet your next great read. Learn on your terms with text, PDF, audiobook, animation, infographic and mind map summaries of business and personal development books. Learn more at https://www.getstoryshots.com/ COPYRIGHT NOTICE: The content provided in this podcast is analysis, critique, commentary and summary of books. The content falls under Copyright Fair Use. For any other copyright inquiries, please contact support@getstoryshots.com. DISCLAIMER: The content provided here is unofficial and does not replace professional help. FREE AUDIOBOOKS: StoryShots is an affiliate of Audible. We earn a small commission every time you sign up to the free trial of Audible for the first time. These commissions help support the podcast. 🇩🇪 Subscribe to StoryShots in German on Spotify or Apple and 🇪🇸🇲🇽 in Spanish. Help us grow and bring you more amazing content by writing us a review. If you don't want to miss out on new episodes, subscribe and click the bell button to be notified. Ready to advertise to a fast-growing audience of leaders, entrepreneurs, executives and driven young professionals? Contact sales@getstoryshots.com for sponsorship opportunities.
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  • The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley | Book Summary and Review | Free Audiobook

    The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley | Book Summary and Review | Free Audiobook
    May 20 2022
    Learn on your terms. Get the PDF, infographic, full ad-free audiobook and animated version of this summary and a lot more on the top-rated StoryShots app: https://www.getstoryshots.com ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the StoryShots podcast now to help us grow and create more amazing content for you! What should our next book be? Comment on Spotify/iTunes or vote it up on the StoryShots app. Interested in sponsorship? Contact support@getstoryshots.com Get the free audiobook here: https://geni.us/doors-free-audiobook Disclaimer: The information provided here is for entertainment purposes only. It is not a replacement for professional medical advice. Always consult your doctor and check your local laws before taking any drugs. StoryShots Summary and Analysis of The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley About Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was a post-war intellectual elite born in 1894. He studied English literature at Oxford University. He wrote almost 50 books and was nominated for nine Nobel Prizes in Literature. Huxley’s first novel was Crome Yellow (1921), an exposition of the futility of the lifestyle of many privileged intellectuals in the 1920s. He later wrote Antic Hay (1923), which satirizes modern society’s preoccupation with sex, business, and consumerism. Huxley was a respected philosopher. Intrigued by how we perceive things, he famously wrote Brave New World, a dystopian vision of society, in 1932. Brave New World is about using mind-altering drugs. The characters take a drug called Soma, which allows them to break from reality. Huxley was a pacifist. His interest in philosophical mysticism and universalism led him to produce The Perennial Philosophy, which illustrates the similarities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception, which explores his psychedelic experience with mescaline. Introduction Published in 1954, The Doors of Perception is about Aldous Huxley’s first psychedelic experience. The book is an account of his trip on Mescaline, the insights he experienced, and the esthetic beauty he saw. Huxley’s psychedelic experience helped him develop psychological and philosophical ideas around perception. He believed we live in a narrow field of perception. We need to open our minds to a broader perceptual experience to improve our lives. Because of his experience, Huxley recommended Mescaline to others. Similar to Brave New World, The Doors of Perception also describes how we can break away from normal perception and uniquely experience the world. Back in the 1930s, Huxley called Mescaline a poison worse than Soma. So it’s interesting to see how his perception of the drug changed within the 22 years of writing the two books. “We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.” — ALDOUS HUXLEY StoryShot #1: Learning About The Extract StoryShot #2: The Effects of Mescaline StoryShot #3: Seeing Beyond the Object Storyshot #4: Seeing Beyond the Self Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey | Book Summary, Analysis and Criticism | Free Audiobook

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey | Book Summary, Analysis and Criticism | Free Audiobook
    Jul 1 2024
    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People challenges traditional self-help that encourages personality ethics, like image and attitude. Covey suggests that readers use a character ethic instead. A character ethic relies on timeless principles, like courage and integrity. Read on your terms. Get the extended ad-free audiobook, PDF, infographic and animated version of this summary of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and more exclusive content on the top-rated StoryShots app: https://www.getstoryshots.com Help us grow to create more amazing content for you! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the StoryShots podcast now. What should our next book be? Suggest and vote it up on the StoryShots app. Interested in sponsorship? Contact sale@getstoryshots.com We're scratching the surface here. To learn the juicy details and support Stephen Covey, get the audiobook of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for free on Amazon: https://geni.us/7-habits-audio DISCLAIMER: This is an unofficial summary and analysis. StoryShots Summary of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen Covey Part I - Paradigms and Principles Introduction The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People challenges traditional self-help that encourages personality ethics, like image and attitude. Covey suggests that readers use a character ethic instead. A character ethic relies on timeless principles, like courage and integrity. To make this transition, you will have to go through what Covey calls a paradigm shift. An effective person has learned to make the paradigm shift from outside in to inside out. They have progressed along the growth continuum from dependence to independence and finally to interdependence. An effective person has also found the balance of production while increasing their capability to produce. To become an effective person, you have to encourage a paradigm shift in your worldview by adopting the seven habits of highly effective people. The first three habits are habits of self-mastery, or private victories. These are: Be Proactive Begin With the End in Mind Put First Things First These three must come first. After adopting these habits, you can use the three habits of public victories. These three habits are built on interdependence. These are: Think Win-Win Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Synergize The last habit relies on continuous improvement and is key to the proper functioning and renewal of the first six. This habit is: Sharpen the Saw Part II - Private Victory Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Criticism Many people criticize Seven Habits of Highly Effective People for being vague and outdated. However, these were not problems with the original text, but rather with its followers. Covey and his work were revolutionary and many people did not comprehend the depth of the content in his book. He often gave speeches to follow up on his book’s ideas and would give more in-depth explanations to answer questions from his audience, who are often comprised of authors, journalists, entrepreneurs, business owners, marketers, educators and other professionals. Get the full text, animated, and PDF version of this summary and many more bestselling nonfiction books for free here: https://go.getstoryshots.com/6kUc First published in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van der Kolk | Book Summary | Free Audiobook

    The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van der Kolk | Book Summary | Free Audiobook
    Jun 30 2024
    Why does trauma persist long after the event? The Body Keeps The Score uncovers the secrets of our body’s memories and how to heal it the modern way. Read on your terms. Get the extended ad-free audiobook, PDF, infographic and animated version of this summary of The Body Keeps The Score and 300,000 more bestselling books on the top-rated StoryShots app: https://www.getstoryshots.com Help us grow and create more amazing content for you! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the StoryShots podcast now. What should our next book be? Suggest and vote it up on the StoryShots app. Order the book here. Get the audiobook for free or listen to it on Spotify. Disclaimer: This is an unofficial summary and analysis. StoryShots Summary and Review of The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van der Kolk About Bessel Van der Kolk Bessell Van der Kolk, MD, is a qualified psychiatrist. He specializes in the field of post-traumatic stress, which led him to write over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles, the majority of them about post-traumatic stress. Van der Kolk, originally from the Netherlands, has also served as president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is currently a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Introduction The Body Keeps the Score is an innovative book by psychiatrist and trauma expert Van der Kolk. We all understand the effect that psychological trauma can have on individuals. Trauma can impact the way people perceive themselves and the world around them. Psychological trauma can have a lasting impact on the individual’s loved ones as well. In this book, Van der Kolk covers the intricacies of how trauma produces these effects by considering the neuroscience involved. Van der Kolk also presents ways neuroscience allows us to produce new, effective treatments for psychological trauma survivors. Examples of these approaches include eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, yoga, and limbic system therapy. Van der Kolk guides us through these modern therapies by recalling his career and the patients he has seen. So this book also serves as a history of the mental health field of the last 30 years. After learning these storyshots, you will better understand how our brains react to and deal with psychological trauma. What Van der Kolk recommends is helping survivors of psychological trauma to recover. StoryShot #1: Antidepressants Ruined Mental Health Support Van der Kolk describes how he and other researchers/therapists were so excited when antidepressants were first introduced. He now believes that our overuse of these medications has led us to treat mental illness as a disease. Unfortunately, this approach means that the following things have been removed from mental health support: The belief that we can heal each other in the same way we can destroy each other Language that is critical to providing us with the power to change circumstances Controlling our physiology by using breathing, moving, and touching techniques, rather than by resorting to medication An inclination to change social conditions so that people feel safer and are then able to thrive StoryShot #2: The Development of Our Understanding of Trauma StoryShot #3: Trauma Influences Relationships StoryShot #4: Therapy Can Treat Trauma StoryShot #5: Brain Scanning Suggests You Should Take Action StoryShot #6: How Therapists Should Approach Treating Trauma StoryShot #7: Early Trauma Changes Neuroanatomy StoryShot #8: Traumatic Memories Are Disorganized NOTE: First published on 29/5/2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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