This book list covers mastery-related topics from psychology, neuroscience, mastery philosophy and meta learning.

All these books are well-researched, and written by credible experts and practitioners. None of these books are too difficult to grasp, or too dull to capture your interest.

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Psychology & Neuroscience

Emotions Learning and the Brain, by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahnemann

Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking, by Richard Nisbett

Mindset, By Carol Dweck

The Master and his Emissary, by Iain McGilchrist

Deviate: the Science of Seeing Differently, by Beau Lotto

Mastery philosophy

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig

Mastery, By Robert Greene

Thought as a System, by David Bohm

Braving the Wilderness, by Brene Brown

Source, by Joseph Jaworski

Synchronicity, by Joseph Jaworski

The Soul of Money, by Lynne Twist

With Winning in Mind, by Lanny Bassham

From Bacteria to Bach and Back, by Daniel Dennett

Phenomenology of Perception, by Maurice Merleu-Ponty

The I-Ching

Meta learning

The Art of Learning, by Joshua Waitzkin

Perfect Practice, by Doug Lemov

E-learning and the Science of Instruction, by Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E Mayer

Metaphors we Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman