Fifteen Paths
How to Tune Out Noise, Turn On Imagination and Find Wisdom

Fifteen Paths tells us how discordant art can bring harmony and wisdom into our lives. It's a refreshingly original book that I devoured in just two sittings. One caveat though: David Weitzner is a huge music nerd and many of his ideas are inspired by alternative rock artists of the 80s. For me, rea......more

We live in an environment that is ever-politicized, -polarized and -fragmenting. It is an environment in which people retreat from one another and circle the wagons with like-minded folk, preferring to exist in the comfort of echo chambers, rather than engage openly and honestly with the seeming dis......more

I read this book with increasing pleasure, at times identifying so completely with some of the thoughts expressed by the people David Weitzner interviewed that it left me wanting more. A real page-turner this is a book written in the form of interviews. The author, a huge fan of art in the form of e......more

David Weitzner thinks the world has gone awry and we need to seek out wisdom and knowledge in order to get us back on the right track. With insights from Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline, Slava Polunin, Jeff Coffin, Sunshine Jones, Mike Doughty, Jill Cunniff, Del the Funky Homosapien, Angelo Moore, Mike Mign......more

I picked up this book while looking for something to quiet the overwhelm I often feel from society. The high-charged emotions of the modern news and social media climate, ever polarizing, quickly losing touch with any sense of empathy. I found myself nodding a lot while reading this book, as it disc......more