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Adam Gopnik: The Joy of Getting Good at Something Hard

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Mystery of Mastery

How do you get from the little chunks of technique to the flow? What's the process? Can we know it? Or is it like consciousness that we experience it, but we can't explain it? I think it's a function of consciousness in as much as I know how we get there. We persevere. And when you make that commitment, you have to want to do it. That seems to be one of the mysteries that you're talking about.

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