{"product_id":"9781529414622","title":"The Real Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: how did the people he was writing about learn their outlandish skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf? In 'The Real Work' - the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick - Gopnik apprentices himself to an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and even a driving instructor (from the DMV), among others, trying his late-middle-age hand at things he assumed were beyond him. He finds that mastering a skill is a process of methodically breaking down and building up, piece by piece - and that true mastery, in any field, requires mastering other people's minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"riverrun","offers":[{"title":"Adam \/ Gopnik","offer_id":45403499921722,"sku":"9781529414622","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/products\/9781529414622.jpg?v=1686927556","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9781529414622","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}