Adam Gopnik, THE REAL WORK: On the Mystery of Mastery
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews bestselling author Adam Gopnik about The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery, a spirited and profound collection of self-help essays that investigate how we learn and master a new skill–from boxing to drawing nude bodies. Adam discusses the bliss of accomplishment: pursuing a new hobby without needing to do it perfectly. He also reveals what he’d like to master next and his best advice for aspiring authors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.1 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. |
| 1:03.2 | Adam Gopnik is the author of The Real Work on the Mystery of Mastery. Adam has been writing |
| 1:08.8 | for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the |
| 1:12.4 | National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and of the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. |
| 1:18.4 | In March 2013, Gopnik was awarded the Medal of Chevalier de L'Lorgue Desartes by the French |
| 1:25.2 | Republic. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two children. |
| 1:28.3 | Did you like my accent? Welcome, Adam. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books |
| 1:32.8 | to discuss the real work on the mystery of mastery. I am delighted to be here and I am married to a mom |
| 1:40.4 | who didn't have enough time to read books, but it's catching up on it now and had a kind |
| 1:45.6 | typically robust pandemic program of big books. She read through EpiDick and Proust and all |
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