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THE REAL WORK: Adam Gopnik on the Mystery of Mastery

The Next Big Idea

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Legendary New Yorker writer Adam Copnick on the Mystery of Mastery. He says we live in a world that prizes achievement, but it's rote and formulaic. In his new book, The Real Work, On the Mystery of mastery, he says alternative is to eschew achievement in favor of accomplishment.

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