| Format | Paperback |
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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
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| Print length: | 256 pages |
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| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | riverrun |
| Publication date: | 12 March 2024 |
| Dimensions: | 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm |
| ISBN-10: | 1529414652 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1529414653 |
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Description
Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: how did the people he was writing about learn their outlandish skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf? In The Real Work -the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick-Gopnik apprentices himself to an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and even a driving instructor (from the DMV), among others, trying his late-middle-age hand at things he assumed were beyond him. He finds that mastering a skill is a process of methodically breaking down and building up, piece by piece-and that true mastery, in any field, requires mastering other people’s minds . Exuberant and profound, The Real Work is ultimately about why we relentlessly seek to better ourselves in the first place. —- ISBN: 9781529414653
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