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 ar tist 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