Everyone has managed to master something, even if it’s the most basic of skills. If you’ve learned to read, or ride a bicycle, or play a musical instrument, you’ve experienced the moment at which an ...
In his classic 1935 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Walter Benjamin argued that the technical reproducibility threatened to strip art of its aura. In the words of the ...
THE REAL WORK: On The Mystery of Mastery. By Adam Gopnik. Liveright. 256 pages. $30. Adam Gopnik assures us that “the real work,” as he defines it, is within reach of everyone. But it takes dedication ...
Former WBUR Morning Edition host Bob Oakes moderated a conversation with New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik about his new book, “The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery,” where Gopnik investigates a ...
We know mastery, we like to think, when we see it in action: the kinetic poetry of Lionel Messi dancing through defenses; Whitney Houston crushing the notoriously difficult national anthem at the ...
A framework that can be helpful to think about when it comes to your career planning and trajectory, as well as how you’re feeling in your current role, is a concept called the career mastery curve.
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