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The Mystery of Mastery with Adam Gopnik
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The Mystery of Interiority
Happiness is absorption. Happiness is reaching that flow state. And in a weird way, any time you achieve it, you have the hummingbirds' heartbeat inside you. You weren't bad at these things, but inexpertly. That you come to a full appreciation of the expert. The person who goes up to the magician and says, I know how you did that, is someone who doesn't try to be a mediocre... If they were a mediocre magician, they would know... Better that they would be an all-instrumentalist.
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