Book Summaries by Wise Words
Book summaries, reviews and discussions. We aim to teach the big ideas from the most popular non-fiction books. We cover a wide-range of topics including, psychology, communication, personal development, habits and much more. Our aim is to make sure you learn more in less time. If you enjoyed our podcast make sure to check out our other content on our website: https://wisewords.blog/
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 113
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#42 The Power of Habit - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.
This week we are summarising ‘The Power of Habit’ by Charles Duhigg which looks at the process of habit change by an…
#41 Elastic Habits - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.
This week we are summarising ‘Elastic Habits’ by Stephen Guise which proposes a flexible framework that can be adopt…
#40 The Now Habit - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.
This week we are summarising ‘The Now Habit’ by Neil Fiore which outlines a toolkit to help us reframe how we percei…
#39 The Habit Blueprint - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.
This week we are summarising 'The Habit Blueprint' by Patrick Edlab which proposes a simple 15-step guide to buildin…
#38 Atomic Habits Part III - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.
This week we are summarising the third part of ‘Atomic Habits’ by James Clear which attempts to lay out a four-step …
#37 Atomic Habits Part II - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.
This week we are summarising the second part of Atomic Habits by James Clear which attempts to lay out a four-step p…
#36 Atomic Habits Part I - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.
This week we are summarising Atomic Habits by James Clear which lays out a four-step process to breaking bad habits …
#35 Propaganda Part II - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.
This week we are continuing on with the second part of propaganda by Edward Bernays. Last week we talked about the …
#34 Propaganda Part I - Book Summary
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Naturally, we thought it would be remiss of us to do a propaganda sequence and not summarise the original manual on pr…
#33 Age of Propaganda Part III - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’. Today we summarised the final part of ‘Age of Propaganda’ by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson
This is a fantastic b…
#32 Age of Propaganda Part II - Book Summary
Hey Wise Wordians and welcome back to another episode of Wise Words Book Summaries
Building on last week, in this episiode we summarise the second part of ‘Age of Propaganda’ By Anthony Pratkanis and …
#31 - Age of Propaganda Part I - Book Summary
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Welcome back to another episode of Wise Words Book Summaries.
Building on our previous episode where we summarised 'Influence' by Robert Cialdini, this week we are summarising 'Age …
#30 - Influence Part II - Book Summary
Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Wise Words Book Summaries.
Today we will be summarising the second half of 'Influence' by Robert Cialdini.
Last week we explored the first three princip…
#29 - Influence Part I - Book Summary
Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Wise Words Book Summaries.
Today we will be summarising the first half of 'Influence' by Robert Cialdini.
This book is heralded as the bible of persuasi…
#28 - Conflicted - Book Summary
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Sorry its taken us so long to upload another book summary, you know how it is, exam season, summer, and all these endless bank holidays.
But no need to worry, we’re back a…
Short Intros Ep.4 - Rhetoric
Hello wise people and welcome to our series 'Short Intros.'
In this series, we focus on summarising books from the 'Very Short Introduction (VSI)' series published by Oxford University Press.
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#27 - Difficult Conversations - Book Summary
Welcome back wise people to another episode of our Wise Word Book Summaries.
This week we are summarising the book 'Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most' by Douglas Stone, Bruce …
Short Intros Ep.3 - Jung
Hello wise people and welcome to our series 'Short Intros.'
In this series, we focus on summarising books from the 'Very Short Introduction (VSI)' series published by Oxford University Press.
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#26 - Selfie - Book Summary
Hey wise listeners and welcome back to another episode of our wise words book summaries.
This episode is on Selfie by Will Storr which tries to explore ‘the self’ from the perspective of the west in t…
#25 - Social Warming - Book Summary
This episode on Social Warming by Charles Arthur takes a look at social media platforms and their negative effects on society caused by their business model as well as their increasing size; such as …