Tristan Lindsay
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Alchemy
- The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
- By: Rory Sutherland
- Narrated by: Rory Sutherland
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,670
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,449
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,444
Why is Red Bull so popular, though everyone—everyone!—hates the taste? Humans are, in a word, irrational, basing decisions as much on subtle external signals (that little blue can) as on objective qualities (flavor, price, quality). The surrounding world, meanwhile, is irreducibly complex and random. This means future success can’t be projected on any accounting spreadsheet. To strike gold, you must master the dark art and curious science of conjuring irresistible ideas: alchemy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best books I’ve read
- By anon. on 07-23-19
- Alchemy
- The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
- By: Rory Sutherland
- Narrated by: Rory Sutherland
Inspirational
Reviewed: 12-05-24
Like Alice I feel like I’m somehow through the looking glass and I’m not going back.
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Joy, Inc.
- How We Built a Workplace People Love
- By: Richard Sheridan
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 269
Joy, Inc. offers an inside look at how Sheridan and Menlo created a joyful culture, and shows how any organization can follow their methods for a more passionate team and sustainable, profitable results. Sheridan also shows how to run smarter meetings and build cultural training into your hiring process. Joy, Inc. offers an inspirational blueprint for listeners in any field who want a committed, energizing atmosphere at work - leading to sustainable business results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hey Menlo.
- By Stacey Colón on 03-25-16
- Joy, Inc.
- How We Built a Workplace People Love
- By: Richard Sheridan
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
Not about Joy
Reviewed: 08-12-24
This book is not about Joy. It’s about the way a certain company works and is only extremely loosely tired to the concept of Joy.
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Everywhere an Oink Oink
- An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood
- By: David Mamet
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 59
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 59
David Mamet went to Hollywood on top—a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Bob Evans, and Sue Mengers. Over the next forty years, Mamet wrote dozens of scripts, was fired off dozens of movies, and directed eleven himself. In Everywhere an Oink Oink, he revels of the taut and gag-filled professionalism of the film set.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Poor Mr. Mamet
- By Joe on 02-03-24
- Everywhere an Oink Oink
- An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood
- By: David Mamet
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Hilarious, fast, and informative
Reviewed: 07-17-24
If you don’t quite “get” Mamet, maybe don’t start here, but if you do this is an absolute feast. Every line has been cut and polished to such a shine that it’s like having a brilliant incisive long-form essay squeezed into every last sentence. If boxing were like writing this would be a punch in the mouth.
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Think and Grow Rich
- By: Napoleon Hill
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,310
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26,456
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26,308
Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history. The text read in this audiobook is the original 1937 edition written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by Andrew Carnegie - and while it has often been reproduced, no updated version has ever been able to compete with the original.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic Book, 21st Century Version Better
- By Razvan Rogoz on 12-29-12
- Think and Grow Rich
- By: Napoleon Hill
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
Not good.
Reviewed: 05-14-24
At first I thought that this was a pretty good book and I was understanding all the hype surrounding it, but then it went right off the rails into crazy town.
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Clockwork, Revised and Expanded
- Design Your Business to Run Itself
- By: Mike Michalowicz, Gino Wickman - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Michalowicz, Johnathan McClain
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 128
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Story5 out of 5 stars 126
If you're like most entrepreneurs, you started your company so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you're bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering an endless stream of questions, and continually hunting for cash.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read
- By John CPA on 09-06-22
- Clockwork, Revised and Expanded
- Design Your Business to Run Itself
- By: Mike Michalowicz, Gino Wickman - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Michalowicz, Johnathan McClain
Good
Reviewed: 05-05-24
Kinda obvious. It definitely recommends hiring other people to do your tasks for your business but it doesn’t say how to do it if you don’t have the money to hire other people.
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The Powerful Purpose of Introverts
- Why the World Needs You to Be You
- By: Holley Gerth
- Narrated by: Holley Gerth
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
In this transformative book, Holley Gerth dives into the brain science behind introversion to help you understand the psychological, relational, and spiritual aspects of being an introvert. She explores how introverts can make meaningful connections, experience quiet confidence, cultivate soul-filling solitude, exercise unexpected influence, and much more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Interesting subject, listening is difficult
- By Shannon Moore on 02-17-21
- The Powerful Purpose of Introverts
- Why the World Needs You to Be You
- By: Holley Gerth
- Narrated by: Holley Gerth
Just a long essay on what an introvert is
Reviewed: 04-21-24
Not very deep. Does not live up to the title and is more just a book that seeks to define what an introvert IS more than anything else. If you already know what an internet is, you do not need to read this book.
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Starsight
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 22,820
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20,235
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Story5 out of 5 stars 20,167
All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumors of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat disappointed 😞
- By Eric Sellers on 12-16-19
- Starsight
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Goes to a weird place
Reviewed: 04-10-24
Expands and adds to the original. Different but still good. A worthy sequel to the first book in the series.
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Creativity, Inc.
- Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
- By: Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,942
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,394
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,345
Creativity, Inc. is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation - into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about creativity - but it is also, as Pixar cofounder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good listen... If you speed up the player
- By andrea gini on 10-06-15
- Creativity, Inc.
- Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
- By: Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
Kinda old now
Reviewed: 04-03-24
6.5/10
I’m sure people ate this up when Pixar could do no wrong but with their current slump it’s hard to ignore how some of the policies in this book might’ve lead to their current situation.
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Hidden Potential
- The Science of Achieving Greater Things
- By: Adam Grant
- Narrated by: Adam Grant, Maurice Ashley, R. A. Dickey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,628
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,451
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,448
We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn’t knock, there are ways to build a door.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Nope
- By Anna OConnor-McClure on 10-27-23
- Hidden Potential
- The Science of Achieving Greater Things
- By: Adam Grant
- Narrated by: Adam Grant, Maurice Ashley, R. A. Dickey, Evelyn Glennie, Sara Maria Hasbun, Francis Idehen, Alison Levine, Benny Lewis, Kari Louhivuori, Nelli Louhivuori, Brandon Payne, Richard Pine, Gil Winch, full cast
Too generic
Reviewed: 02-28-24
Follows the “random story” style of personal development. Stories are not necessarily bad but they’re usually pretty inefficient because there’s so much time wasted in exposition and set up. For example Every chapter has to reintroduce a new hero.
Barely anything concrete.
Not a huge fan of the full cast thingy
Kinda shallow. Could’ve been a thread on Twitter. Nothing “Hidden” about the advice contained here.
Really only nine pieces of advice surrounded by seven hours of packaging.
One of the chapters is about being ok with good enough and that’s probably the biggest flaw with this book. There’s a thousand other books that are good enough. This book needed to aim for great enough.
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Why Does God Allow Evil?
- Compelling Answers for Life’s Toughest Questions
- By: Clay Jones
- Narrated by: Clay Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story5 out of 5 stars 29
If God is good and all-powerful, why doesn't He put a stop to the evil in this world? Christians and non-Christians alike struggle with the concept of a loving God who allows widespread suffering in this life and never-ending punishment in hell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Tristan Lindsay on 02-21-24
- Why Does God Allow Evil?
- Compelling Answers for Life’s Toughest Questions
- By: Clay Jones
- Narrated by: Clay Jones
Excellent
Reviewed: 02-21-24
One of the best apologetics books I’ve read and it deals with one of the nonbelievers biggest stumbling blocks. Extremely well done
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