15 Minutes — Book Summaries
By 15 Minutos
Categories: Education, Self-Improvement, Arts, Books
One book per episode, in about 15 minutes. These are the free book-of-the-day summaries from the 15 Minutes app: business, psychology, finance, leadership and personal growth, straight to the point. The full catalog, with more than 1020 summaries, is in the app (free to download) at 15min.com.br.
32 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Preview: Summary: The Secret to Overcoming Fear (Adriana de Araújo)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: Original title (Portuguese): O Segredo para Vencer o Medo. For anyone who feels paralyzed by anxiety when facing everyday challenges such as public speaking, driving, or career…
- Preview: Summary: The Art of Negotiation (Michael Wheeler)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For professionals, managers, and independent contractors who face unpredictable negotiations in their daily work and want to move beyond rigid approaches. The book teaches how to…
- Summary: Childhood and Society (Erik H. Erikson)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who wants to understand how each stage of life brings its own conflict, from early infancy to old age, and how family and culture shape who we become. It is great for…
- Summary: The $100 Startup (Chris Guillebeau)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who wants to test a small business with limited resources, including keeping a day job while learning the ropes. It is especially useful for service providers and…
- Summary: How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking (Dale Carnegie)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who has to speak at a meeting, presentation, or event and feels their stomach drop when their name is called. The book is a practical guide to organizing your thoughts…
- Summary: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who works in a field where one forgotten detail is costly, from the hospital to the construction site, and wants to understand how a simple paper list cuts down on silly…
- Summary: Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For readers who love a forbidden love story with an ending that hurts, but who also want to watch up close a marriage that works out in fits and starts, with no magic ending. It is…
- Summary: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution (Gregory Zuckerman)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For investors, economists, technology professionals, and curious readers who want an inside look at the greatest money-making machine in Wall Street history. A revealing account of…
- Summary: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents (Lindsay C. Gibson)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who grew up without truly being heard, even in a home free of violence, and today wonders why they feel so lonely around their own family. It is for those who want to…
- Summary: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (John Gottman)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who keeps arguing with their partner about the same things and wants to understand, based on real observational research, what tends to separate couples who last from…
- Summary: The Relaxation Response (Herbert Benson)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone whose body feels tense all the time, even with no real danger in sight, and who wants a simple technique to switch off that alarm for a few minutes a day. It's also for…
- Summary: The Innovators (Walter Isaacson)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For you who use a phone, the internet, and a computer every day and never stopped to think where it all came from. It's also for anyone who works on a team and wants to understand how…
- Summary: Ultralearning (Scott H. Young)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For you if you want to learn a difficult skill quickly, without waiting for a degree or a formal course. It's for independent learners who want a method for breaking the cycle of…
- Summary: I Thought It Was Just Me (Brené Brown)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who lives with the feeling that they are always falling short and hides it from others. It is especially helpful for women, mothers, and overwhelmed professionals who want…
- Summary: Self-Compassion (Kristin Neff)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For you if you push yourself all the time, call yourself names when you mess up, and believe being hard on yourself is the only way to get better. The book shows a way to hold high…
- Summary: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Steven Pinker)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who reads the news about violence every day and feels like the world is only getting worse, or who likes to argue about history with numbers instead of impressions. This…
- Summary: The Willpower Instinct (Kelly McGonigal)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who has promised to change a habit over and over, broken the promise, and beaten themselves up for it. A summary to trade guilt for an understanding of how willpower…
- Summary: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (John C. Maxwell)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who leads a team of any size and wants to grasp the core of one of the best-selling leadership books in the world, without getting lost trying to memorize 21 different…
- Summary: Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (Michael E. Porter)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone running a small business who can feel a competitor's pricing breathing down their neck, or anyone who wants to understand why giant companies still lose to a…
- Summary: The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious (C. G. Jung)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who likes to reflect on social masks, idealized passions, and what is left of you when the role ends. Also for readers who have heard terms like persona, shadow, and…
- Summary: Crooked Plow (Itamar Vieira Junior)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who enjoys contemporary Brazilian fiction and wants to understand the story of rural people, of faith, and of the struggle for land. It also works for students and teachers…
- Summary: Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who has always been curious about philosophy but figured it was strictly a college subject. Also for people who enjoy a mystery novel and want to understand, in a light…
- Summary: Pitch Anything (Oren Klaff)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For entrepreneurs, negotiators, and professionals who need to pitch high-stakes projects and win favorable decisions. A manual on controlling meetings, the psychology of persuasion…
- Summary: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone interested in life stories, lifelong learning, and civic engagement. It also appeals to readers who want to reflect on habits without treating personal success as a…
- Summary: The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
Independent summary by 15 Minutes. This is not the audiobook and contains no excerpts from the book. Who it's for: For anyone who likes to stop and think about the big passages of life, such as love, work, and grief, without depending on a particular religion to do it. It also works for people who…
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