The real work : on the mystery of mastery
Gopnik, Adam2023
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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.
Main title:
The real work : on the mystery of mastery / Adam Gopnik.
Author:
Gopnik, Adam, author
Imprint:
London : riverrun, 2023.
Collation:
x, 241 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529414622 (hbk)
Dewey class:
153.15
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
580344