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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gopnik, Adam. author.     Subjects     Gopnik, Adam.     Expertise.     Excellence.     Ability.     Learning.     Training.     Creative ability.     Performance -- Psychological aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gopnik, Adam. author.       by title:      The real work : on t...         MARC Display

The real work : on the mystery of mastery / Adam Gopnik. by Gopnik, Adam. author. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] Subjects Gopnik, Adam.   Expertise.   Excellence.   Ability.   Learning.   Training.   Creative ability.   Performance -- Psychological aspects. ISBN:  9781324090755 (hardcover) : 1324090758 (hardcover) Description:  x, 241 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In The Real Work--the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick--Gopnik 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--of identifying 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--as in music, where vibrato, a way of not quite landing on the right note, carries maximum expressiveness. Gopnik's simplest 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--in one of the most personally revealing passages Gopnik has ever written--helps him master his own demons. Spirited and profound, The Real Work will help you understand how mastery can happen in your own life--and, significantly, why each of us relentlessly seeks to better ourselves in the first place"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.9 Go Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 153.9 Go Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.9 Gopnik Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.9 Go Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Koloa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 153.9 Go Lost 10/02/2023 Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.9 Go Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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