Performance


Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Outliers: The Story of Success
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
Learn Faster, Perform Better by Molly GebrianThe Business Of Beats by Robert   AndersonWaiting in the Wings by Tiffany HaasAI Performance by Chris  FrostThe History of Hip Hop by Eric Reese
Books all musicians should read
15 books — 6 voters
A Tempest Soul by Oliver PhippsBlood Memory by Martha GrahamThe Everyday Dancer by Deborah BullDance with Me by Luanne RiceTo Dance by Siena Cherson Siegel
Dance both fiction and non fiction
209 books — 12 voters

Untapped Melody by Emma BrayDirty Rocker by Cassie MintFinding Her Tempo by Jessa JoyCarnal Licks by Pinky CockburnSame Old Song by Matilda Martel
Rock My World Series
13 books — 4 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
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

Russell Brand
The light. The light is so bright that all that remains is you and the darkness. You can feel the audience breathing. It's like holding a gun or standing on a precipice and knowing you must jump. It feels slow and fast. It's like dying and being born and fucking and crying. It's like falling in love and being utterly alone with God; you taste your own mouth and feel your own skin and I knew I was alive and I knew who I was and that that wasn't who I'd been up till then. I'd been so far away but ...more
Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

Michael Ondaatje
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.
Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero

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