Performance


Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall by Edgar Allan PoeThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan PoeLenore by Edgar Allan PoeLandor's Cottage by Edgar Allan PoeThe Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe
Audio Books Listened To 2
100 books — 2 voters
The Anti-Aesthetic by Hal FosterArtificial Hells by Claire BishopRelational Aesthetics by Nicolas BourriaudEssays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan KaprowThe Writings of Marcel Duchamp by Marcel Duchamp
Socially Engaged Art
62 books — 5 voters

A Tempest Soul by Oliver PhippsThe Everyday Dancer by Deborah BullBlood Memory by Martha GrahamDance with Me by Luanne RiceTo Dance by Siena Cherson Siegel
Dance both fiction and non fiction
209 books — 12 voters
Effortless Mastery by Kenny WernerThe Musician's Way by Gerald KlicksteinThe Art of Practicing by Madeline BruserThe Inner Game of Music by Barry GreenImprove your teaching! by Paul  Harris
Music Practice
62 books — 8 voters

Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCullyThe Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai GersteinLouise, The Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamilloWalking on Air by Kelly EastonLet the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Walking the Tightrope
41 books — 8 voters
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto BoalThe Empty Space by Peter BrookPerformance Theory by Richard SchechnerThe Theater and Its Double by Antonin ArtaudBrecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht
Performance & Theatre Theory
50 books — 39 voters

Patrick Süskind
And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning. ...more
Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Guy Mankowski
Apathy's just a front. People offer it when there's something stronger hiding underneath. You have to work harder to tap into it, but then your performance has even more power. ...more
Guy Mankowski, How I Left the National Grid: A Post-Punk Novel

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