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The Mystery of Mastery with Adam Gopnik

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"Shaping Sentences": The Intimate Entanglement of Ideas and Emotions in Songwriting

The speaker is not competing with Elon Musk in rocketry but is good at shaping sentences/nThe speaker loves writing personal essays and believes that writing lyrics or a show is the same enterprise of organizing language to express emotion/nThe speaker tries to express emotion and ideas together and believes this is most effectively done in the form of a song

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