Michael Tran
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Habits for Happiness
- 10 Daily Steps for Living Your Happiest Life
- By: Dr Tim Sharp
- Narrated by: Dr Tim Sharp
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 404
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 349
How do we get happy? Listen to a positive, step-by-step guide on the building blocks for personal happiness by Dr Tim Sharp (aka Dr Happy).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Take notes.
- By james g. on 09-19-20
- Habits for Happiness
- 10 Daily Steps for Living Your Happiest Life
- By: Dr Tim Sharp
- Narrated by: Dr Tim Sharp
Pragmatic Yet Lacking
Reviewed: 10-01-20
Dr. Tim Sharp is a positive psychologist who gives you a pragmatic look on happiness. Overall, and in summary, you cannot always be happy and to expect such is unrealistic. Why then did that take 10 minutes to explain?
Sharp then proceeds to talk about creating a vision board to organize what you want out of your life—at the end are a bunch of people who talk about how their vision boards helped change their lives. It did not feel authentic. I also did not know who any of the 5+ people were.
Overall, this podcast is 3/5. It is not terrible. It is not great. It is average.
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Habits for Happiness
- 10 Daily Steps for Living Your Happiest Life
- By: Dr Tim Sharp
- Narrated by: Dr Tim Sharp
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 353
How do we get happy? Listen to a positive, step-by-step guide on the building blocks for personal happiness by Dr Tim Sharp (aka Dr Happy). Through ten daily habits, this series provides the learnings and practical strategies for creating a happier life. Dr Tim Sharp is a clinical and consulting psychologist with three degrees in psychology and a distinguished career over several decades. He's Australia's very own "Dr Happy" and the founder of The Happiness Institute. This is an Audible Original.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just a goal book
- By Joanne on 11-10-20
- Habits for Happiness
- 10 Daily Steps for Living Your Happiest Life
- By: Dr Tim Sharp
- Narrated by: Dr Tim Sharp
Pragmatic Yet Lacking
Reviewed: 10-01-20
Dr. Tim Sharp is a positive psychologist who gives you a pragmatic look on happiness. Overall, and in summary, you cannot always be happy and to expect such is unrealistic. Why then did that take 10 minutes to explain?
Sharp then proceeds to talk about creating a vision board to organize what you want out of your life—at the end are a bunch of people who talk about how their vision boards helped change their lives. It did not feel authentic. I also did not know who any of the 5+ people were.
Overall, this podcast is 3/5. It is not terrible. It is not great. It is average.
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They Both Die at the End
- By: Adam Silvera
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Robbie Daymond, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,793
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,924
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,910
On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called The Last Friend, and through it Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure - to live a lifetime in a single day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My heart..
- By Shay on 10-03-17
- They Both Die at the End
- By: Adam Silvera
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Robbie Daymond, Bahni Turpin
Angsty
Reviewed: 02-05-20
If you like teenage angst, this is a perfect book for you. If not and you were after something more spiritual or philosophical, click on the next book!
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,925
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,262
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,244
Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing to physicians & lay persons alike
- By C. White on 03-08-19
- Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
Make this a Movie!!!
Reviewed: 10-19-19
Author took a long and thoughtful process to write this book. You can tell he cares about all sides of the story. Great reading/performance from narrator. This book is science + storyline, which is great. Should be made into a movie.
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Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 747
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Story4 out of 5 stars 643
Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell. Join him on a tour of the absurdities of modern life - from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP to hot dogs made of cats.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good Book: Wrong Milieu
- By scott on 09-04-19
- Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
On Point, Great English Humor
Reviewed: 10-19-19
Pretty good reading. Mitchell is a really funny author and he’s the best one to read his own work. His inflection makes things super funny. His stuff was written in 2014 but is still relatable to 2019—it also provides lots of insights into previous world events that make me glad I listened to this book.
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Tobacco
- A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
- By: Iain Gately
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 267
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 230
Tobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes long before the arrival of Columbus. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely - a cultural touchstone of pleasure and success and a coveted commodity that would transform the world economy forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting until a pro-smoking ending
- By Kelli on 12-25-20
- Tobacco
- A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
- By: Iain Gately
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Great anthropological hypothesis of tobacco
Reviewed: 07-06-19
Goes deep into the plant, it's biology, and it's cultivation and spread. From pre-european expansion/colonialism to WWI to modern times, this book goes into it all! Makes you wonder what would happen if tobacco never existed (or coffee for that instance).
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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar
- Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
- By: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 372
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Story4 out of 5 stars 210
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, longtime philosophers and comedians, present Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, an entertaining, enlightening, and engaging guide to the love of wisdom. With their combined knowledge, wit, and whimsy, the authors provide a book that can be thoroughly enjoyed by anyone, from the curious layman to the most well-versed professor of Nicomachean Ethics.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not impressive
- By C. Theimer on 11-05-07
- Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar
- Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
- By: Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Not for me or life changing
Reviewed: 07-06-19
Not for me or added anything of value to my life. The jokes took away from the jargon and the jargon took away from the philosophy
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Understanding Power
- The Indispensable Chomsky
- By: Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,978
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,694
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,673
A major new collection from "arguably the most important intellectual alive" ( The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Current times demand you get this into your head.
- By Comatoso on 08-12-15
- Understanding Power
- The Indispensable Chomsky
- By: Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
His opinion is just like this one I have...
Reviewed: 07-06-19
This isn't the way the world works. Maybe it did now, but Chomsky fails to mention any information about modernization, "post"-globalization, or the technological advances that are greater either more information/misinformation or removing barriers and allowing transparency to be given to the public. If someone during 2015-2019 were to listen to this, they'd think the world was out to get them and it sounds more like a conspiracy theory than anything. Good historical document/viewpoint though.
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The New Geography of Jobs
- By: Enrico Moretti
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 631
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 537
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 534
Today, there are three Americas. At one extreme are the brain hubs with workers who are among the most productive, creative, and best-paid on the planet. At the other extreme are former manufacturing capitals that are rapidly losing jobs and residents. The rest of America could go either way. For the past 30 years, the three Americas have been growing apart at an accelerating rate. This divergence is one the most important developments in the history of the US and is reshaping the very fabric of our society. But the winners and losers aren't necessarily who you'd expect.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Almost Stopped Listening
- By R. Hartley on 03-29-19
- The New Geography of Jobs
- By: Enrico Moretti
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
why things are the way they are now (2019)
Reviewed: 07-06-19
Pretty good and sums up why we have these political divides (created from our economic divides). I would read it again and I would share this information with others. It's important we start trying to provide more funding for other areas of the country and not leave everything for Silicon Valley to create (Californian here). St. Louis' biotech industry is picking up and that has helped put a lot of people to work and provide more education for workers.
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The Outsiders
- Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
- By: William N. Thorndike
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,684
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,214
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,202
In The Outsiders, you'll learn the traits and methods striking for their consistency and relentless rationality that helped these unique leaders achieve such exceptional performance. Humble, unassuming, and often frugal, these "outsiders" shunned Wall Street and the press, and shied away from the hottest new management trends. Instead, they shared specific traits that put them and the companies they led on winning trajectories: a laser-sharp focus on per share value as opposed to earnings or sales growth; an exceptional talent for allocating capital and human resources; and the belief that cash flow, not reported earnings, determines a company's long-term value.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great summary of the 8 CEOs, lessons to learn from
- By Jason S on 09-04-19
- The Outsiders
- Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
- By: William N. Thorndike
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
Eight conventional pages please
Reviewed: 07-06-19
Could have been written and summarized in eight pages. Not that great and hugely opinionated.
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