Chicago Humanities Festival | Adam Gopnik On the Art of Mastering A New Skill @ChicagoHumanitiesFestival | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Longtime New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn—and master—a new skill? In his newest book, The Real Work, Gopnik apprenticed as an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and even a driving instructor to understand the process of mastering new skills, how it happens, and if anyone can do it. Join CHF as we sit down with this brilliant writer, for a conversation that seeks to answer the ultimate question about why and how we humans relentlessly seek to better ourselves. Gopnik is joined in conversation by Gloria Groom, chair of Painting and Sculpture of Europe and David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago.

This annual lecture recognizes the significant contributions to the Chicago Humanities Festival made by its founder and chairman emeritus Richard J. Franke.

This program is generously underwritten by Paula R. Kahn.

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