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THE REAL WORK - ADAM GOPNIK KARTONIERT (TB)

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 

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