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Books like Moonwalking with Einstein
The best books like Moonwalking with Einstein are The Memory Book, Limitless, and Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer is about memory, learning, expertise. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Memory Book
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Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas · Self-help
The Memory Book is Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's classic guide to memory improvement, first published in 1974 and still in print over fifty years later.
Shares memory and learning with Moonwalking with Einstein.
Read the summary → - Limitless
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Jim Kwik · Self-help
Limitless is Jim Kwik's account of how he overcame a childhood brain injury and learning difficulties to become a professional memory coach and reading accelerator, and what he learned about cognition along the way.
Shares memory and learning with Moonwalking with Einstein.
Read the summary → - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool · Science
Peak is Anders Ericsson's definitive account of deliberate practice — the specific type of focused, feedback-driven training that, more than any other factor, determines how expert people become in demanding fields.
Shares learning and expertise with Moonwalking with Einstein.
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- The Art of Learning
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Josh Waitzkin · Self-help
The Art of Learning is Josh Waitzkin's account of how he became a national chess champion as a child and later a world-champion martial artist, and what those two very different disciplines taught him about the structure of high performance.
Both dig into learning.
Read the summary → - A Mind for Numbers
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Barbara Oakley · Self-help
A Mind for Numbers is Barbara Oakley's guide to learning hard subjects effectively, written primarily for students struggling with mathematics and science but drawing on cognitive science principles that apply to any demanding field.
Shares memory and learning with Moonwalking with Einstein.
Read the summary → - Make It Stick
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Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger and Mark A. McDaniel · Science
Make It Stick is a book about how memory actually works, and why the study techniques most people rely on — re-reading, highlighting, massed practice — are among the least effective ways to learn.
Shares memory and learning with Moonwalking with Einstein.
Read the summary → - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein · Science
Range is David Epstein's argument against the ten-thousand-hours gospel.
Shares learning and expertise with Moonwalking with Einstein.
Read the summary → - The Extended Mind
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Annie Murphy Paul · Science
The Extended Mind is Annie Murphy Paul's argument that the brain is not the only seat of cognition.
Shares learning and cognition with Moonwalking with Einstein.
Read the summary → - Learn Like a Pro
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Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe · Self-help
Learn Like a Pro is a concise, evidence-based guide to studying more effectively, written by Barbara Oakley — the engineer-turned-neuroscientist best known for A Mind for Numbers and the Coursera course "Learning How to Learn" — and Olav Schewe, a student learning consultant.
Shares memory and learning with Moonwalking with Einstein.
Read the summary → - The Seven Sins of Memory
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Daniel Schacter · Psychology
The Seven Sins of Memory is Daniel Schacter's account of the ways human memory routinely fails, organized around a taxonomy he developed to make the failures legible.
Shares memory and cognition with Moonwalking with Einstein.
Read the summary → - How the Mind Works
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Steven Pinker · Science
How the Mind Works is Steven Pinker's synthesis of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, built around a central thesis: the mind is a computational system — a neural computer — shaped by natural selection to solve the adaptive problems that faced our ancestors on the Pleistocene savanna.
Both dig into cognition.
Read the summary → - The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard Hamming · Science
Richard Hamming's book is based on a course he taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in the late 1980s, after a long career at Bell Labs where he made foundational contributions to information theory and computer science — the Hamming distance, Hamming codes, and various contributions to numerical methods all bear his name.
Both dig into learning.
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Books like Moonwalking with Einstein: quick answers
What are the best books like Moonwalking with Einstein?
The best books like Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer are The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas, Limitless by Jim Kwik, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin, A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Moonwalking with Einstein, such as memory, learning, expertise.
What should I read after Moonwalking with Einstein?
A natural next read after Moonwalking with Einstein is The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas. Shares memory and learning with Moonwalking with Einstein. Other strong choices are Limitless by Jim Kwik, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin.
What books are similar to Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer?
Moonwalking with Einstein centers on memory, learning, expertise. Books with a similar feel include The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas, Limitless by Jim Kwik, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin, A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley, Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger and Mark A. McDaniel — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
