Heyo, Nik here, (re)delivering the last (and first) edition of The 4 Minute Read for 2023/2024, just in case you missed it over the busy New Year's weekend. Happy New Year! 🍾 If you want to start the new year in a meaningful way, I can't think of a better 4-minute summary than our latest of Derek Sivers' How to Live — and if you're lucky, there might even be a few extra hours left to become a 4MB Lifetime member at 24% off. 😉 Here's our latest roundup again, and welcome to Just Do It January, 2024!
Let's ring in the new year with some pizzazz, shall we?
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How to Live by Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers is a famous writer, programmer, entrepreneur, and TED speaker. If you haven't heard of him, he grew to fame when he sold his company, CDBaby, which was one of the first online music retailers, for $20 million and gave all the money to charity. Today, Sivers is an author, and How to Live is his magnum opus. Condensed from over 1,000 pages down to just 120, the book provides 27 vastly different, fun, enlightening answers to the biggest question we all ask ourselves: How should we live? It's a book full of interesting ideas and valuable lessons, but most of all, it makes you think about the bigger picture — and that's what we're analyzing in today's summary. If you want to live your best and happiest life in 2024, read this summary.
Yuval Noah Harari is best known for his multimillion-copy bestseller Sapiens, in which he explained all of human history in a beautiful way. But what happens next?
After Sapiens, Harari turned his gaze towards the future. Homo Deus is the result. In this book, Harari muses about what has allowed humans to become the dominating species — shared narratives — and how those narratives affect our world right now as well as in the future.
No matter how inspired you feel to start 2024 strong, a little help can go a long way. Last year, our New Year's Deal was a huge hit, so we decided to bring it back.
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One of the best ways to achieve what you want is to simply believe the effort you put in makes a difference — which, of course, it does. But sometimes, we fall into a dark pit and forget this. In moments like that, books like Talent Is Overrated can come to our rescue. In this excellent read, Geoff Colvin explains why both talent and experience are false gods we shouldn't worship too much. Instead, he reveals that deliberate practice makes all the difference — and that's an approach we can all take to whatever we are working on. Of course, he also explains just how we can do that. If you want to do great work and excel in what you're doing in 2024, read this summary.
Speaking as someone who may or may not have bought all of Walter Isaacson's books, perhaps this rings familiar... 😇
That's it. Just like that, 2023 is at an end. How was your year? Feel free to hit reply and tell me about the best thing that happened in your life this year — or how you plan on making 2024 even better.
In any case, Happy New Year, and thank you so much for being a Four Minute Books reader!
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