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80/20 Sales and Marketing
- The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More
- By: Perry Marshall
- Narrated by: Ron Allan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Stop "just getting by"... Master the 80/20 rule and make more money without more work. When you know how to walk into any situation and see the 80/20's, you can solve almost any conversion problem. Any traffic problem. Any money problem. If you're a sales and marketing professional, you can save 80 percent of your time and money by zeroing in on the right 20 percent of your market. By page 5 you'll be applying 80/20² and 80/20³ to gain 10X, even 100X the success.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great Content but worse Narrator ever .
- By John on 01-07-14
- 80/20 Sales and Marketing
- The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More
- By: Perry Marshall
- Narrated by: Ron Allan
An ad packaged in a fake guru book
Reviewed: 28-06-24
Really basic marketing ideas packaged as if they are unique insights. This is too simple, could have just been a blog post.
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Unf--k Your Brain
- By: Faith G. Harper PhD LPC-S ACS ACN
- Narrated by: Faith G. Harper PhD LPC-S ACS ACN
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 1,317
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1,170
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,157
Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes - having meltdowns, getting addicted to things, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. Your brain knows it's not good to do these things, but it can't help it sometimes - especially if it's obsessing about trauma it can't overcome. That's where this life-changing book comes in. With humor, patience, science, and lots of good-ole swearing, Dr. Faith explains what's going on in your skull, and talks you through the process of retraining your brain to respond appropriately....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too much swearing!!!
- By Adriana M on 17-07-21
Awful audio, and "guru-like" pseudo-psychology
Reviewed: 22-07-22
Really bad. So so much cursing for effect and a bunch of just her unhelpful ideas. It would be fine if it was just some gym routines, but it's about mental health. Irresponsible
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The Fountainhead
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
- Length: 32 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 783
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 701
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 702
One of the 20th century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters: Howard Roarke, a genius; Gail Wynand, a newspaper mogul and self-made millionaire; and Dominique Francon, a devastating beauty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Its no Atlas shrugged
- By Russell on 06-03-13
- The Fountainhead
- By: Ayn Rand
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Great lessons are all in the first 1/4
Reviewed: 14-07-22
This story is about how mediocre men who are good at politics destroying the best men, in this case Howard Rourke, by manipulating people whose opinions just follow trends and what they are told to think. It's a great lesson, typical Any Rand, but unfortunately most of the book is completely absurd. The metaphor of Dominique Francone and marrying every other man to destroy them with her indifference is boring and goes on forever with multiple indistinguishable chapters of men who have little bearing on the story professing their love of her. it would be a better book if it focussed on Peter, Elsworth and Howard struggling between politics and competence.
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The Strange Death of Europe
- Immigration, Identity, Islam
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Robert Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,694
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,374
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,361
The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end.
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4 out of 5 stars
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very good, but do be careful
- By julien on 06-08-17
- The Strange Death of Europe
- Immigration, Identity, Islam
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Robert Davies
Depressing
Reviewed: 07-07-22
Makes me wonder about the future of Europe. One complaint though, the narrator (not Douglas who narrated his other 2 more recent books) does terrible accent impressions when quoting German, French, Danish and other people. It's completely jarring! Just read it in your normal voice, why do a horrible impression of Angela Merkel???
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The War on the West
- How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,632
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,313
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,293
In The War on the West, international best-selling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is a history of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it? It’s become, he explains, perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of non-Western cultures, but discussing their flaws and crimes is called hate speech. What’s more it has become acceptable to discuss the flaws and crimes of Western culture, but celebrating their contributions is also called hate speech.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In the land of the blind …
- By theantlion on 01-05-22
- The War on the West
- How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
Necessary reading
Reviewed: 30-04-22
Douglas Murray has an uncanny ability to crystallise our current political and socio-cultural moment. This book has so many pertinent examples, and provides a much needed counterweight to the woke hegemony that has taken the culture for now.
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The Practice
- By: Seth Godin
- Narrated by: Seth Godin
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 241
Creative work doesn't come with a guarantee. But there is a pattern to who succeeds and who doesn't. And engaging in the consistent practice of its pursuit is the best way forward. Based on the breakthrough Akimbo workshop pioneered by legendary author Seth Godin, The Practice will help you get unstuck and find the courage to make and share creative work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A series of blog posts
- By Charlie on 12-05-21
- The Practice
- By: Seth Godin
- Narrated by: Seth Godin
A series of blog posts
Reviewed: 12-05-21
Some great impactful words here that inspire for a day or two. Seth does a great job of finding interesting ways to express ideas about creative work. He's a master. That's why I took his courses and probably spent $5k on this guy over the years. That said, I didn't find this book very useful and will likely soon forget it as it's all stuff Seth has been saying for years and years. Not practical or actionable, just vague Godin-isms like "do the hard work of emotional empathy", "the people you seek to serve" and "people like us do things like this". It's very quotable and repeatable, especially by other altMBA alumni who can't move past his words and actually do their work. I don't like the culty nature of some of the phrases in the book that when you really dig into them have very little to offer in practical wisdom. I just don't find it useful but others might. Still others will just repeat it to sound smart while it has little to no effect on their success and ability to do their work.
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Intellectuals and Society
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 232
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 228
This is a study of how intellectuals as a class affect modern societies by shaping the climate of opinion in which official policies develop, on issues ranging from economics to law to war and peace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another excellent book by Thomas Sowell.
- By Aaron Ison on 01-12-21
- Intellectuals and Society
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Sowell is a light of knowledge
Reviewed: 07-05-21
There are just so many examples of how intellectuals make a society stupider, and how their unaccountability to the results of their proclamations makes them wholly unable to ever admit they were wrong, or look at evidence to inform their policy proposals.
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In Order to Live
- A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- By: Yeonmi Park
- Narrated by: Eji Kim
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 962
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 861
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Story5 out of 5 stars 860
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation or disease or even execution.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Performance ruins the story
- By Mr James on 01-01-19
- In Order to Live
- A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- By: Yeonmi Park
- Narrated by: Eji Kim
Amazing book, MUST READ
Reviewed: 21-04-21
This is an incredible story and made me feel so grateful for my incredibly privileged life. What a heroine for the whole world. I can't imagine. The narrator was pretty emotionless and had weird inflections and intonation that sometimes made me double take. But still, amazing story.
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Basic Economics, Fifth Edition
- A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 774
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 647
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 633
In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English.
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1 out of 5 stars
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B and B book: Boring and Brainwashing
- By Antonio Ferreira on 01-11-18
- Basic Economics, Fifth Edition
- A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
The most underrated genius of our time
Reviewed: 14-04-21
Thomas Sowell deserves massive recognition for his utter devotion to facts and reality. I would recommend this book to everyone who is unsure of how the world came to be the way it is.
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Chaos
- Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties
- By: Tom O’Neill, Dan Piepenbring
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,487
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,278
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,278
In 1999, when Tom O’Neill was assigned a magazine piece about the 30th anniversary of the Manson murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Weren’t the facts indisputable? Charles Manson had ordered his teenage followers to commit seven brutal murders, and in his thrall, they’d gladly complied. But when O’Neill began reporting the story, he kept finding holes in the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s narrative, long enshrined in the best-selling Helter Skelter. Before long, O’Neill had questions about everything from the motive to the manhunt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The truth is always stronger than the lie.
- By Anonymous User on 25-09-19
- Chaos
- Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties
- By: Tom O’Neill, Dan Piepenbring
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Crazy Story, too long book
Reviewed: 11-03-21
I picked up this audiobook after listening to Tom O'Neill on The Joe Rogan experience, but honestly just listening to that podcast would be a lot more satisfactory for most people. This book is full of details and names that are hard to remember, and a lot of random pathways that aren't connected to the main story. It's very hard to follow in the 16 hours or so of listening, even though I played it on 1.5 speed (12 hours). It's a fascinating story but I can see how difficult it was for him to put it into a book. There are just too many unanswered and probably unanswerable questions here. So it makes this book deeply unsatisfying.
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