The real work : on the mystery of mastery /
by Gopnik, Adam.
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BookPublisher: London : riverrun, 2023Description: 288 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781529414622 (hbk.) :; 1529414628 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 153.15 GOPSubject(s): Experiential learning | Expertise | Psychology | Psychology | Literary essays | Psychology | Popular science | Memory improvement & thinking techniquesSummary: 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.
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| 153 PAR Out of my head : on the trail of consciousness / | 153.12 CHA How to train your memory / | 153.14 DOL Mrs Dolby's memory magic: | 153.15 GOP The real work : on the mystery of mastery / | 153.3 BUZ Mind map mastery : the complete guide to learning and using the most powerful thinking tool in the universe / | 153.32 GAW Creative visualization | 153.35 DE How to have creative ideas: |
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.
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