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Books like The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
The best books like The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music are This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, The Art of Learning, and Mastery. The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music by Victor Wooten is about music and learning, creativity and mastery, spirituality and practice. 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.
- This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Daniel J. Levitin · Science
Daniel Levitin came to neuroscience from the music industry — he was a record producer who worked with Stevie Wonder, the Grateful Dead, and Blue Öyster Cult before getting a PhD in psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - 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.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Mastery
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Robert Greene · Self-help
Mastery is Robert Greene's long account of how extraordinary human mastery develops — from childhood inclinations through apprenticeship through creative independence to the integration that characterizes true mastery.
A kindred philosophy read.
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- Big Magic
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Elizabeth Gilbert · Self-help
Big Magic is Elizabeth Gilbert's manifesto for living a creative life — not as a professional artistic career but as an orientation toward existence.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · Psychology
Flow is Csikszentmihalyi's landmark study of optimal experience — those moments when people are so deeply absorbed in an activity that time warps, self-consciousness disappears, and effort feels effortless.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Guide to the Good Life
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William Irvine · Philosophy
William Irvine's book is a modern case for reviving Stoic philosophy as a practical guide to living well.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A History of Western Philosophy
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A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy is Bertrand Russell's single-volume account of Western philosophical thought from the pre-Socratics through Aristotle, the Stoics, medieval Scholasticism, the Renaissance, the empiricists and rationalists, Kant, German Idealism, and the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Rulebook for Arguments
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Anthony Weston · Philosophy
A Rulebook for Arguments is Anthony Weston's slim, widely assigned handbook on how to build and judge arguments.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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George Saunders · Philosophy
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is George Saunders's account of the graduate fiction workshop he has taught at Syracuse for over twenty years, organized around seven stories by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, and Gogol.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - A Theory of Justice
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John Rawls · Philosophy
A Theory of Justice, published in 1971, is John Rawls's attempt to construct a systematic alternative to utilitarianism in political philosophy.
A kindred philosophy read.
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Books like The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music: quick answers
What are the best books like The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music?
The best books like The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music by Victor Wooten are This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin, The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin, Mastery by Robert Greene, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music, such as music and learning, creativity and mastery, spirituality and practice.
What should I read after The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music?
A natural next read after The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music is This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin. A kindred philosophy read. Other strong choices are The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin, Mastery by Robert Greene, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert.
What books are similar to The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music by Victor Wooten?
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music centers on music and learning, creativity and mastery, spirituality and practice. Books with a similar feel include This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin, The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin, Mastery by Robert Greene, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1984 by George Orwell — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
