TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gopnik,Adam
TI  - The real work: on the mystery of mastery 
SN  - 9781529414622 (hbk.) :
AV  - BF318 
U1  - 153.15 GOP 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - riverrun
KW  - Experiential learning
KW  - Expertise
KW  - Psychology
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Literary essays
KW  - thema
KW  - Popular science
KW  - Memory improvement & thinking techniques
N2  - 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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