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THE REAL WORK: Adam Gopnik on the Mystery of Mastery

The Next Big Idea

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The Importance of Mastery in Modernity

The author says mastery is much more common than we think. Her mother became a Mozartian baker as she got older. She hopes the book will help people find new things to do in their old age. "It reignites your cognition and even more important than that, it opens you up"

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