Book Summaries by Wise Words

In our roam recap podcast, Jes and I review some of our weekly notes, notes that we weren't able to talk about in our book review episodes. This weeks episode, we look at skill performance in the form of deliberate practice. This is a method discovered by Anders Ericson, which allows you to push past that threshold and obtain better results. Linked to this topic, we also talk about goal orien...

How to have impossible conversations is a fantastic book that is becoming more and more relevant by the day.  The full write up is here - https://wisewords.blog/book-summaries/how-to-have-impossible-conversations/ With the current state of polarisation due to social media and ideological differences, it is clear that people find it hard to talk about certain issues without the possibility of confl...

In our roam recap podcast, Jes and I review some of our weekly notes, notes that we weren't able to talk about in our book review episodes. Roam research is a note-taking tool for networking thought. It is incredibly good at linking ideas which makes it much easier for us to link between different books and articles. Sometimes we are quite restricted in terms of how much we can say about a bo...

The Control Heuristic Book Summary - You can find full written summary here - https://wisewords.blog/book-summaries/the-control-heuristic-book-summary/ Why do we find it hard to act on some thoughts but easy to act on others? Why can't we put our mind to something and just do it? Well, it turns out that our brains have a set of requirements to turn our thoughts into actions. Luca Dellanna bri...

A more beautiful question book summary full write up can be found here - https://wisewords.blog/book-summaries/more-beautiful-question-book-summary/ Questioning is like a superpower. It allows us to question our own realities and come up with new ones. Too often we take answers as absolutes and never check in on them, never see if their value has diminished over time. Answers are dependant on time...

Robin Moriarty's book ' What Game Are You Playing?' is a great reminder that we should all be doing what we want to do rather than what others want us to do. Although many self-help books talk about finding happiness and pursuing a passion, Robin uses a great analogy of 'games' to make it simple and understandable for anyone reading it.   You can find the full book summary...

The Second Episode of our exploration of Human Nature. Taking the Scalpel to the role of humour, conversation and charity in human relationships.  --    If you enjoyed this podcast make sure to check out our other content on our other platforms: Website: https://wisewords.blog/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wisewords.blog/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/wisewordsblog Facebook: https://www.fac...

The Elephant in the Brain thesis: - Full Book Summary is here - https://wisewords.blog/book-summaries/the-elephant-in-the-brain-book-summary/ 1. People are judging us all the time. They want to know whether well make good friends, allies, lovers, or leaders. And one of the important things they're judging is our motives. Why do we behave the way we do? Do we have others' best interests a...

Factfulness by Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling explains how we can all cultivate a fact based view of the world by dealing our ' instincts '.  You can see our full written summary of this book summary here - https://wisewords.blog/book-summaries/factfulness-book-summary/ The books main thesis, we all have an overdramatic view of the world and believe the world is get...

This podcast is a discussion around what we've learnt this month from the books, articles and conversations we've been having.  This conversation goes into Metaphors and why they are surprisingly important in our everyday lives, prescriptions (how-to) advice and why it doesn't always work and how man-made tools like the clock shape our lives.  If you are curious to how language secr...

In A Mind for Numbers , Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to learning effectively—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier.  https://wisewords.blog/book-summaries/mind-for-numbers/ The learning strategies in this book apply not only to math and science but to any subject in which we struggle. In this review, we delve into the key learning strategies we took...

The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman is all about Dopamine, the chemical of desire that always asks for more—more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises.  For a full written book summary check out - https://wisewords.blog/book-summaries/molecule-of-more-book-summary/ In the pursuit of more, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our urges, the biology...

This is the How to Read a Book - book summary! You can find the full write up of this summary here - https://wisewords.blog/book-summaries/how-to-read-book-book-summary/ Not every book is the same, so why would we approach them in the same way?  Mortimer Adler's book 'How to Read a Book' dives into the process of reading and how we need to master rudimentary reading before proceedin...