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Adam Gopnik: The Joy of Getting Good at Something Hard

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The Power of Creativity

When I got the okay that I was a writer by winning an Emmy for writing, I did a cartwheel down the aisle on the way to the stage because you can get it with an award as an actor for being cute. You know, we have physical aerobics, but we also have cognitive aerobics. We have moments when we're working, when it just gets to be easy,. When you don't feel the strain of it as you had been doing. And that's in the magical moment to get to.

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