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Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music
by Glenn Kurtz
A former guitar prodigy who quit returns to practice in middle age and meditates on discipline, ambition and love of the work. Literary and moving.
Read it if…
you abandoned something you loved.
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Skip it if…
you want practical tips.
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Three things you will actually use
- Return to the practice.
- Ambition can poison love of the work.
- Practice is its own reward.
Do this first
Read the opening chapter on the first day back.
Our verdict
Returning to practice.
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