CLASSIC ADVICE

Literary Classics and Their Value in Contemporary (Professional) Life

Understanding Your Terrain Is Half the Battle
This 7 min. read saves you up to 102 hours
For your knowledge advantage, we put together the most actionable insights from 19 getAbstract summaries (18 books with a total of 5080 pages and one podcast) on this topic. If you did this work yourself, you would be busy for at least 6089 minutes (about 102 hours). Learn more.
Understanding Your Terrain Is Half the Battle

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War Or: Victory is Built on Knowledge

Perseverance Is Its Own Reward
This 5 min. read saves you up to 37 hours
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Perseverance Is Its Own Reward

Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea Or: You Are Not Done Until You Die

On New Beginnings
This 5 min. read saves you up to 74 hours
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On New Beginnings

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Or: It’s Never Too Late to Start Over

Beware of What You’re Chasing!
This 5 min. read saves you up to 50 hours
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Beware of What You’re Chasing!

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Or: The Fatal Consequences of a Single-Minded Obsession

Foregoing Comfort for Adventure
This 5 min. read saves you up to 42 hours
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Foregoing Comfort for Adventure

Homer’s Iliad Or: On Embracing Fate and Pursuing Immortality

A Wake-Up Call for Change
This 5 min. read saves you up to 45 hours
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A Wake-Up Call for Change

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Or: Laying the facts bare is the first step to change.

Roll off Your Couch, Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get Rolling
This 5 min. read saves you up to 62 hours
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Roll off Your Couch, Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get Rolling

Albert Camus’s The Plague Or: Don’t Throw Up Your Hands, Roll Up Your Sleeves!

Glitz, Glamor and a Very Sad Man
This 4 min. read saves you up to 5 hours
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Glitz, Glamor and a Very Sad Man

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Or: How Not to Be Murdered by Your Mistress’s Husband’s Mistress’s Husband.

Wisdom Lies in the Details
This 5 min. read saves you up to 59 hours
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Wisdom Lies in the Details

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost TimeOr: The Art of Connecting With the Meaning-Making Riches of Life

Breaking Out of the Cinderella Tale
This 5 min. read saves you up to 5 hours
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Breaking Out of the Cinderella Tale

A Victorian lesson on how to take control of your own narrative.

Heed the Villagers’ Warnings
This 5 min. read saves you up to 16 hours
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Heed the Villagers’ Warnings

Bram Stokers Dracula Or: Puritan Meets Prince of Darkness

Sleeping with the Fishes
This 4 min. read saves you up to 9 hours
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Sleeping with the Fishes

Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Or: How to Escape a Madman Offshore

Denmark Ranked Least Happy Country (in 1603)
This 4 min. read saves you up to 13 hours
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Denmark Ranked Least Happy Country (in 1603)

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet Or: Why Revenging Your Dead Father Could Damage Your Health

The 1845 Tiny Home Craze
This 5 min. read saves you up to 6 hours
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The 1845 Tiny Home Craze

Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Or: How to Escape the Rat Race (and Make Peace with Woodchuck Cravings)

The Bold, the Beautiful and the Murderous
This 4 min. read saves you up to 9 hours
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The Bold, the Beautiful and the Murderous

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Or: Why You Should Embrace Aging Gracefully