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Adam Gopnik: The Joy of Getting Good at Something Hard

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The Mystery of Mastery

The Real Work on the Mystery of Mastery is a new book by New Yorker writer David Frum. In it, he recounts his struggles and delight in trying to master skills that are entirely foreign to him. "I'll never be Michelangelo, but I understand now what goes into the business of making a life drawing a naked human being"

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