5 Books to Kickstart 2024
Kickstart 2024 – scroll through the BizBooks.net picks for Creativity and Inspiration 💖
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Four Thousand Weeks, whose title is based on the typical number of weeks in a lifetime, is a book about embracing your limitations, and finally getting round to what counts. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management.
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The Art of War meets The Artist’s Way in this no-nonsense, profoundly inspiring guide to overcoming creative blocks of every kind. Exactly what the title says. Think of The War of Art as tough love … for yourself. It tells you how to define, understand, and defeat your own resistance to being a creative professional.
F*ck Your Comfort Zone: Take a Risk & Become the Lead in Your Own Life by Margie Haber
Celebrated acting and audition coach Margie Haber has spent over 40 years teaching celebrities and top actors from around the world. She will gently and compassionately guide you out of your comfort zone and into a life of bravery, risk-taking, and being the best version of yourself. With Margie’s help, you will learn how to transform your fear into personal power and approach life with empathy, humour, and curiosity. It will change everything.
The Artist’s Compass: The Complete Guide to Building a Life and a Living in the Performing Arts by Rachel S. Moore
While performing artists have many educational opportunities to perfect their craft, they are often on their own when it comes to learning the business skills necessary to launch their careers. At the end of the day, show business is, well, a business. In The Artist’s Compass, Rachel Moore (who rose from a dancer in the American Ballet Theater’s corps de ballet to become the CEO of that organization – and is today the head of The Music Center in LA) shares how to make life as a performer more successful, secure, and sustainable by approaching a career in the arts like an entrepreneur.
The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together by Twyla Tharp with Jesse Kornbluth
In this practical sequel to her national bestseller The Creative Habit, choreographer Twyla Tharp explains why collaboration is important to her – and can be for you. She shows how to recognize good candidates for partnership and how to build one successfully, and analyzes dysfunctional collaborations. And although this isn’t a book that promises to help you deepen your romantic life, she suggest that the lessons you learn by working together professionally can help you in your personal relationships.
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