{"product_id":"9781529414653","title":"The Real Work","description":"Author: Adam Gopnik\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529414653\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Quercus Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 12 Mar 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46717755687070,"sku":"ADS-9781529414653","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529414653.jpg?v=1776129545","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529414653","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}