Malcolm Gladwell: The great epiphany of my life was when I joined the New Yorker in 1986. He says he realized that the only way to write beautifully was to construct small descriptive sentences connected by ants, not long contentious sentences disrupted by butts. "You never, at all, do the subject," Glaude writes about his time as a graduate student.
In a live conversation taped at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Malcolm chats with his old friend and New Yorker magazine colleague, Adam Gopnik, about Adam’s latest book, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery. In the book, Adam follows numerous masters of their craft to find out just how they do what they do—and discovers that there is mastery all around us. In this episode, Malcolm and Adam highlight a few of the folks from the book, and what they have to teach us. You can purchase the audiobook version of The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery at Pushkin.fm
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