Book Summaries

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📚 Lifelong Learning & Deeper Development Book Summaries

Pair with: Sloww Stage Support: How do I learn for life?

• A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber | Book Summary
• A Synthesizing Mind by Howard Gardner | Book Summary 
• A Theory of Everything by Ken Wilber | Book Summary
• Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte | Book Summary
• Ego Development Theory by Susanne Cook-Greuter | Paper Summary 1, 2
• Finding Radical Wholeness by Ken Wilber | Book Summary
• First Person Action Research by Judi Marshall | Book Summary
• How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler | Book Summary 
• How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens | Book Summary 1, 2 
• Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber | Book Summary
• Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber | Book Summary
• Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory by Allen Repko and Rick Szostak | Book Summary
• Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies by Allen Repko, Rick Szostak, & Michelle Phillips Buchberger | Book Summary
• Learning in Adulthood by Sharan Merriam & Lisa Baumgartner | Book Summary
• Make It Stick by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger III, and Mark McDaniel | Book Summary
• Postautonomous Ego Development by Susanne Cook-Greuter | Book Summary
• Raise a Genius! by László Polgár | Book Summary
• Range by David Epstein | Book Summary 
• SQ21 (Spiritual Intelligence) by Cindy Wigglesworth | Book Summary
• Teaching Complex Ideas by Arnold Wentzel | Book Summary
• The 7 Transdisciplinary Cognitive Skills for Creative Education by Danah Henriksen | Book Summary
• The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin | Book Summary
• The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by Abraham Maslow | Book Summary 1, 2, 3, 4 
• The Integral Vision by Ken Wilber | Book Summary
• Transcend by Scott Barry Kaufman | Book Summary 1, 2
• Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning by Jack Mezirow | Book Summary
• Ultralearning by Scott Young | Book Summary
• Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning by Patricia Cranton | Book Summary

🌎 Intentional Living Book Summaries

Pair with: Sloww Stage 1: How do I design a lighter lifestyle?

• Areté by Brian Johnson | Book Summary
• Atomic Habits by James Clear | Book Summary 
• Chasing Slow by Erin Loechner | Book Summary
• Conspicuous Consumption of Time by Bellezza, Paharia, & Keinan | Research Summary
• Die With Zero by Bill Perkins | Book Summary
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport | Book Summary
• Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker | Book Summary 
• Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren by John Maynard Keynes | Essay Summary
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown | Book Summary 
• Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman | Book Summary
• Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki | Book Summary
• In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell | Essay Summary
• In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore | Book Summary 
• Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist | Book Summary
• Simplify by Joshua Becker | Book Summary
• Slow by Brooke McAlary | Book Summary
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson | Book Summary 
• The Blue Zones Cookbook by Dan Buettner | Book Summary
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo | Book Summary
• The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd | Book Summary 
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel | Book Summary
• The Quest of the Simple Life by William J. Dawson | Book Summary 1, 2
• The Slow Fix by Carl Honoré | Book Summary
• The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim | Book Summary
• The Value of Voluntary Simplicity by Richard Gregg | Essay Summary
• Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin | Book Summary
• Voluntary Simplicity: Listening to the Quiet Revolution by Katie Barton | Thesis Summary
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau | Book Summary
• When by Daniel Pink | Book Summary 

🧭 Life Purpose Book Summaries

Pair with: Sloww Stage 2: How do I find deeper purpose?

• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle | Book Summary
• Awakening Your Ikigai by Ken Mogi | Book Summary | My Ikigai 2.0 eBook
• Find Your Why by Simon Sinek | Book Summary
• Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles | Book Summary | My Ikigai 2.0 eBook
• Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer | Book Summary 
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl | Book Summary 1, 2 
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho | Book Summary 1, 2
• The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna | Book Summary
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch | Book Summary 
• The Path Made Clear by Oprah | Book Summary
• The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren | Book Summary
• The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Riso & Hudson | Book Summary 1, 2
• Yes to Life by Viktor Frankl | Book Summary 

🧠 Mental Mastery Book Summaries

Pair with: Sloww Stage 3: How do I master the mind?

• A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy | Book Summary 
• Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell by Bernardo Kastrup | Book Summary
• As a Man Thinketh by James Allen | Book Summary
• Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish | Book Summary
• Conscious by Annaka Harris | Book Summary
• Creating Freedom by Raoul Martinez | Book Summary 
• Determined by Robert Sapolsky | Book Summary
• Enchiridion by Epictetus | Book Summary
• Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly | Book Summary
• Free Will by Sam Harris | Book Summary 
• Guinea Pig B by Buckminster Fuller | Book Summary
• Hard Luck by Neil Levy | Book Summary
• How to Live by Derek Sivers | Book Summary 
• Livewired by David Eagleman | Book Summary
• Lying by Sam Harris | Book Summary
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | Book Summary 1, 2
• Metathinking by Nick Shannon & Bruno Frischherz | Book Summary
• Moral Luck by Thomas Nagel | Essay Summary
• On the Freedom of the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer | Essay Summary
• On The Shortness Of Life by Seneca | Book Summary
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Peter Kaufman & Charlie Munger | Book Summary
• Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin | Book Summary
• Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday | Book Summary
• Sum by David Eagleman | Book Summary
• Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann | Book Summary 
• The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli | Book Summary
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Michael Nylan Version) | Book Summary
• The Egg by Andy Weir | Book Summary
• The Existentialist’s Survival Guide by Gordon Marino | Book Summary
• The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul | Book Summary
• The Grand Redesign by Sam McRoberts | Book Summary
• The Great Mental Models Volume 1 by Farnam Street | Book Summary 
• The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey | Book Summary 
• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant | Book Summary 1, 2 
• The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist | Book Summary
• The Power of Myth with Joseph Campbell | Series Summary
• The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella | Book Summary
• Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson | Book Summary
• This is Water by David Foster Wallace | Book Summary 
• Whole Brain Living by Jill Bolte Taylor | Book Summary

☯️ Spiritual Seeing Book Summaries

Pair with: Sloww Stage 4: How do I see beyond mind?

• Awareness by Anthony De Mello | Book Summary 
• Be As You Are by Ramana Maharshi | Book Summary
• Be Here Now by Ram Dass | Book Summary
• Being Aware of Being Aware by Rupert Spira | Book Summary 
• Being Myself by Rupert Spira | Book Summary 
• Dissolve into Infinity by Swami Sarvapriyananda | Book Summary
• Experiencing God Directly by Marshall Davis | Book Summary
• Know Yourself by Ibn Arabi & Balyani | Book Summary
• No Self, No Problem by Chris Niebauer | Book Summary
• On Having No Head by Douglas Harding | Book Summary
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse | Book Summary
• Spiritual Enlightenment by Jed McKenna | Book Summary 
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell Version) | Book Summary
• The Art of Contemplation by Alan Watts | Book Summary
• The Book by Alan Watts | Book Summary
• The Ending of Time by David Bohm & Jiddu Krishnamurti | Book Summary
• The Heart of Prayer by Rupert Spira | Book Summary 
• The Limits of Thought by David Bohm & Jiddu Krishnamurti | Book Summary
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle | Book Summary 
• The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence & Marshall Davis | Book Summary
• The Science of the 1st Person by Douglas Harding | Book Summary
• The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer | Book Summary 
• The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello | Book Summary
• Thought as a System by David Bohm | Book Summary
• Waking Up by Sam Harris | Book Summary
• What is Vedanta? by Swami Sarvapriyananda | Book Summary
• Who Am I? by Sri Ramana Maharshi | Book Summary
• Who Am I? by Swami Sarvapriyananda | Book Summary
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki | Book Summary

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