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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

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[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny.&#8221&#8213Olver Burkeman, The Atlantic
Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human
question: How do we learn&#8213an master&#8213anew skill? For decades now, 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 more fundamental matter, one he had often
meditated on in The New Yorker: How do masters learn their miraculous skill, whether it was
drawing a museum-ready nude or baking a perfect sourdough loaf? How could anyone become so
good at anything? There seemed to be a fundamental mystery to mastery. Was it possible to
unravel it? In The Real Work&#8213th term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes
for a great trick&#8213Gonik becomes a dedicated student of several masters of their craft: a
classical painter, a boxer, a dancing instructor, a driving instructor, and others. Rejecting self-help
bromides and bullet points, he nevertheless shows that the top people in any field share a set of
common qualities and methods. For one, their mastery is always a process of breaking down and
building up&#8213ofidentifying and perfecting the small constituent parts of a skill and the
combining them for an overall effect greater than the sum of those parts. For another, mastery
almost always involves intentional imperfection&#8213asin music, where vibrato, a way of not
quite landing on the right note, carries maximum expressiveness. Gopnik&#8217simplest and
most invigorating lesson, however, is that we are surrounded by mastery. Far from rare, mastery is
commonplace, if we only know where to look: from the parent who can whip up a professional
strudel to the social worker who&#8213inone of the most personally revealing passages Gopnik
has ever written&#8213heps him master his own demons. Spirited and profound, The Real Work
will help you understand how mastery can happen in your own life&#8213an, significantly, why
each of us relentlessly seeks to better ourselves in the first place.