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Adam Gopnik in Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell: On the Mystery of Mastery

Mar 13, 2023


Join award-winning New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik with New York Times-bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell on the nature of talent — and Gopnik’s fascinating new book, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery. Apprenticing himself to an artist, a dancer a boxer, and even a driving instructor, Gopnik’s new book is a movingly persistent study of knowledge itself — how we acquire it, and why we must rely on one another to learn — a fascinating intellectual companion to Gladwell’s bestselling Outliers. Together, Gopnik and Gladwell pose elemental, essential questions about the nature of the human mind: who are we? How do we learn? Does our knowledge define us? How can we better understand each other and ourselves? Don’t miss this unforgettable evening of conversation and inquiry.

Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has won three National Magazine Awards for essays and for criticism …

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, Talking to Strangers …

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