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How learning a new skill helps you appreciate mastery
Episode April 14, 2023 31 min 11s

How learning a new skill helps you appreciate mastery

From KERA's Think • KERA
Thousands took up sourdough baking during the pandemic, but how many actually mastered it? New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what it takes to master a skill and to explain why the real benefit comes not in becoming a virtuoso but, rather, in just forcing your brain to try something hard. His book is “The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery.”

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