{"product_id":"9781529414653-the-real-work","title":"The Real Work","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the Mystery of Mastery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBestselling author and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBestselling author and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Real Work\u003c\/i\u003e-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 \u003ci\u003eminds\u003c\/i\u003e. Exuberant and profound, \u003ci\u003eThe Real Work \u003c\/i\u003eis ultimately about \u003ci\u003ewhy \u003c\/i\u003ewe relentlessly seek to better ourselves in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40986716602465,"sku":"9781529414653","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27231853.jpg?v=1721593915","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529414653-the-real-work","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}