
Adam Gopnik - The Mystery of Skill and Mastery
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The Imposter Syndrome
I absolutely irrevocably believe in genius and natural talent but what I observe when I look at both the world I know in the history I study is that those things blossomed only through perseverance and circumstance. Mozart is the most gifted human being who ever lived and no one ever worked harder at music than Mozart The two things go go together. It's been all observation but true have to interact right obviously there are people with more specific talent for something than not Paul McCartney is a wonderful singer I am not a wonderful singer he was always a wonderful singer.
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