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Books like Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

If you liked Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

    Greg Mortenson · 2006

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, education.

    Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.

  2. The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch · 2008

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, education.

    Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

  3. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

    Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb · 2013

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, education.

    Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.

  4. Educated

    Tara Westover · 2018

    Because shares tags: education, nonfiction.

    Educated retold: Idaho scrapyard, no school, BYU, Cambridge, break with father and brother.

  5. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · 2014

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Thiel argues monopolies create value through vertical progress, not by copying competition.

  6. Ways of Seeing

    John Berger · 1972

    Because shares tag: art.

    Seven short essays on how pictures, ads, and nudes teach us to look.

  7. Think and Grow Rich

    Napoleon Hill · 1937

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.

  8. The Prince

    Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.

  9. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

    Marie Kondo · 2011

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Marie Kondo teaches the KonMari method: keep only what sparks joy, tidied by category for a lasting home reset.

  10. The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries · 2011

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Ries lays out Build-Measure-Learn, MVPs, pivots and validated learning for building companies under extreme uncertainty.

  11. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

    Corrie ten Boom · 1971

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.

  12. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    Daniel James Brown · 2013

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936.

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