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Range
- How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- By: David Epstein
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 595
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 475
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 471
In this landmark audiobook, David Epstein shows that the way to excel is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, taking detours, experimenting relentlessly, juggling many interests - in other words, by developing range. Studying the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, Epstein discovered that in most fields - especially those that are complex and unpredictable - generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. They are also more creative, more agile and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A compelling fantasy novel
- By David on 13-07-2020
- Range
- How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- By: David Epstein
- Narrated by: Will Damron
ideas need to be shared!
Reviewed: 23-02-2023
if you feel like you have too many scattered interests start with reading this book.
A fantastic book about how your interests can lead on to new ideas especially if those interests diverge and spread across different domains. I highly recommend giving it a listen or read!
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,935
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,670
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,662
From the Sunday Times top ten best-selling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. "It's about the terror, isn't it?" "The terror of what?" I said. "The terror of being found out." For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world, meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made jokes on social media that came out badly or made mistakes at work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not for me, but a sound tale for the internet era
- By Sam on 19-09-2015
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
this book is quite the journey.
Reviewed: 06-04-2021
still processing all of that. I am disheartened by some of "humanity" I hope that self censorship is not the new norm like he points out.
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Brave New World
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Michael York
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,668
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,456
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,450
When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic.
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-2019
- Brave New World
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Michael York
A must read
Reviewed: 11-10-2020
This book is eerily close to what we have now in some aspects of our society. It also leaves the conversation open without laying down an agenda. Every person has a small part to play in the building of our "brave new world" what will we choose to sacrifice in order to build heaven on earth? Do we actually even want that as a collective? Will our individual desires sabotage or collide with our brethren? What do we do to ensure that our actions add to the "good" of all or will we have our "freedoms(are we really free of our childhood conditioning?)" to chose every possible experience between heaven and hell?
My thoughts and emotions are swimming in the layered ideas in this book 🤯
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,145
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,701
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,690
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A book with no ending...
- By Ben on 23-10-2019
- Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Brain food
Reviewed: 28-11-2019
This book is well researched with a passion for the human story. The unvarnished truth. I am still processing the nuances of his structured approach to this information. Just brilliant!
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
- By: Mark Manson
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,813
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,777
For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great hook, great narrator, little payoff
- By AU Pierre on 01-03-2018
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
- By: Mark Manson
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Finding reasons for life.
Reviewed: 23-11-2019
I have been recommended this by a few people and I in my self centered way of thinking thought that they where trying to tell me something. Read the book it is more than just a catch phrase and shallow self help junkie juice. It is a honest work by a man whom seems to really want people to be more honest. I love it and will endeavor to give less f*cks about the silly things in life.
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12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- By: Jordan B. Peterson
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,379
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,172
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,126
Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of millions of viewers. In an era of unprecedented change and polarising politics, his frank and refreshing message about the value of individual responsibility and ancient wisdom has resonated around the world. In this audiobook, he provides 12 profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring, religious content not openly disclosed.
- By Martin Castilla on 31-07-2018
- 12 Rules for Life
- An Antidote to Chaos
- By: Jordan B. Peterson
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
Old wisdom with a modern touch stone.
Reviewed: 05-08-2019
This book had me questioning a lot of my unconscious ideas about the mechanics of my mind and values. It is a work that will be a call to action in society in general. I am still disturbed by some of the implications and some ideas really do have deep implications. Saying this, his overall message of personal responsibility in its raw honest practical nature is easy to understand. Truth is truth find yours.
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