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A Chokehold On Reason

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The Mystery of Mastery

Mike Downey: My new book is called The Mystery of Mastery. It's the accounts, kind of essays and comic and adequacy for the most part about my attempt to learn to do various things. All of these things happened organically over 15 years. I've been studying, drawing, following my 13-year-old son to Vegas to live among the magicians,. Then learning to drive a car finally in my 50s and so on. But yeah, it was the idea was that I got obsessed with how we get good at doing things at any point in life. And even when we don't get good atdoing them, what's the good? That's an even deeper

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