If you can do that, I'm not sure you still need...anyway, you get the point: Eat your spinach!
Heyo, Nik here with Saturday's 4 Minute Read, just in case you missed the email. Welcome tooooo... New-ly! Get it? New + July = New-ly! This month, we'll share some brand new bestsellers with you that are taking the world by storm right now. Here are this week's goodies:
Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia (great compilation of the latest science and advice on how to live past 100)
Winning by Jack Welch (how to make it in business & your career, explained by the manager of the century)
Shortform AI* (the single-best AI tool to help you understand everything 10x faster)
Let's get into it!
Hot Off The Press
Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia
This book is everywhere right now, and rightfully so. I mean, who wouldn't like to live longer? Dr. Attia provides the operating manual to do so. From nutrition to exercise to sleep, the longtime medical doctor and former athlete compiles and presents the latest research, data, and excellent techniques and tools for us to improve the habits that are keeping us alive. If you want to learn how to use the 4 pillars of good health to stave off the 4 "Horsemen of Chronic Disease," as Attia calls heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and foundational diseases like diabetes, dive into this book!
Originating from ancient India, a caste system groups people into different social classes, thereby establishing a hierarchy. People from lower castes are supposed to do menial jobs, stay quiet, and not get in the way of "the higher-ups."
In the West, we rarely think about what it's like to be born into such a system and not make the lucky draw. But we're even less inclined to believe such a system might be alive and well today, right under our noses, even in "the land of the free:" America.
In Caste, brilliant author and Pulitzer Prize–winner Isabel Wilkerson shows us the invisible lines running through society, hiding in plain sight — and what we can do to break them.
If you want to better understand the "shadow hierarchy" of America, what goes into a caste system built for discrimination, and how we can collectively fight for more equality, watch this video.
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What if you could quickly skim the main points of a 1-hour-Youtube interview instead of just listening and hoping you strike gold?
Well, with Shortform AI*, you can do all of those things, and you can do them in seconds. Open any article, Youtube video, or email in your browser, click "Get Summary," and voilà — a summary in a few bullets, some context, additional resources, and even a few counterarguments will appear.
This brilliant tool is part of Shortform's* larger offering: A library of over 1,000 incredibly detailed book guides, complete with audio features, a mobile app, and custom book recommendations. Best of all, you can try the whole experience completely free for 5 days and get 20% off through our exclusive Four Minute Books link.
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When he retired after 20 years of running General Electric, the de facto (and first) American electricity company, as its CEO, Jack Welch pocketed the biggest retirement package in history: $417 million. Talk about inflated salaries for the big wigs. Then again, when you grow a company's market capitalization by a factor of 40 (!), from $12 billion to $450+ billion, those $417 million look like peanuts. Here are 3 useful lessons about making it in business and your career from the man dubbed "the manager of the century." A true business classic!
Not sure if you've read it, but it really hits way too close to home these days, doesn't it? 👁️
That's all for now. Have a great week ahead!
Happy reading, -Nik
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