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The 4 Minute Read

Awegust
August 19, 2023 || Read in browser

When was the last time you activated *all* your senses?

Hello there! Nik here with The 4 Minute Read. Due to popular demand, we've decided to extend our Blue Friday offer through the weekend. The audiobook bonus is gone, but I have an idea for a different bonus for everyone who ordered after the deadline...more on that on Monday. 😁

You can learn all about Blue Friday and why we're doing it here and get 44% off when you become a Lifetime Member here. Here are our latest summaries:

Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin (will make you appreciate your body, life, and the world more)
Invent & Wander by Jeff Bezos (will make you smarter and inspire you to do great things)
The Power of Less by Leo Babauta (will help you feel lighter and focus only on what matters)
Blue Friday & the once-a-year 44% off deal for Four Minute Books Lifetime Members

Are you ready to be amazed? Let's dive into some fascinating books!

Hot Off The Press

Life in Five Senses
by Gretchen Rubin

Being told that her retina might come off was not how Gretchen Rubin had imagined her usual visit to the eye doctor to go. Suddenly, New York City seemed...so much more colorful! So much more vibrant! With a newfound appreciation of her visual sense, Rubin realized what else she had been missing out on — and set off to explore the power of our 5 senses. The result is this beautiful, bestselling book that'll make you cherish life, the world, and your body a lot more than ever before. Check it out!

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Quote of the Week

"The more we notice, the more we can enjoy."

— Gretchen Rubin

The Big 3 From the Book

1. We don't value our ability to see as much as we rely on it, but there are 5 things we can do about it.

2. Train your nose with 3 simple exercises to improve a sense most of us are bad at.

3. Try 4 practices to get more out of your sense of touch, a unique way to connect with others and the world.

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A Book Brought to Life

Jeff Bezos grew Amazon from a shoddy basement bookstore into the biggest retailer in the world. At least 1 in 3 online shopping sales happens on Amazon.

He grew the company to a trillion dollar market cap — that's a thousand billion, or 1,000 x 1,000 million dollars. He also became the world's richest man for a while in the process — and the first to crack a $100 billion net worth.

Invent & Wander is a collection of ideas from his best writings, from personal essays to letters to his shareholders. The book is full of wisdom on life, perseverance, and doing great business.

If you want to learn from one of the smartest people who ever lived about business, success, and life, watch this video.

The Once-a-Year Deal

Blue Friday is our own, unique, once-a-year discount day. Blue is the color of intelligence, curiosity, rationality, strength, focus, and calm. In other words, it is the color of the lifelong learner — you.

To support you in that journey with all the tools you'll ever need, this weekend only, we're offering a whopping 44% OFF our Lifetime Membership. Here's what's inside:

Access to all our 1,200+ summaries in a brand new, beautiful, lightweight PDF format for printing, saving, and offline reading
Audio versions of over 1,200 titles which you can listen to offline or via your favorite podcast app, and even download and save forever
300 bonus audios with personal commentary from me on each book
Real-time access to new titles in PDF-form via Dropbox
A copyable, customizable Evernote notebook with all our summaries for better personal learning
Access to 10+ high-quality, beautifully illustrated PDF guides to help you become more productive, read better, remember more, etc.
A free copy of The 4 Minute Millionaire, a full-fledged book covering the best finance books from the last 50+ years in daily, actionable lessons
A free copy of 2-Minute Pep Talks, my 2nd book filled with 67 daily, short messages of inspiration
Unlimited lifetime updates

If that's not a lifelong learner's dream package, then I don't know what is. It cost us more than $200,000 to create all the resources in this mega-bundle, but now you can snag it all for just $44 — and it'll keep growing!

Now's the best time ever to get a Four Minute Books Lifetime Membership and start your lifelong learning journey. There might even be a hidden bonus. 👀

Get 44% Off Before the Deal Expires »

Dusty But Brilliant

The Power of Less
by Leo Babauta

In this short but enlightening book, Leo, the founder of Zenhabits and minimalist par excellence, will show you how to align your life with your most important goals. You'll learn to figure out what's truly essential, how to change your habits one at a time, and what it takes to works in a focused and productive way on only the projects that'll lead you where you actually want to go. A classic I keep coming back to!

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