The Real Work On the Mystery of Mastery

You could tell you know I say in my book mastery that by a person's style by how they write a book by the how they put language together or the music they create reveal something very very deep about their character about who they are and so a lot of rap kind of comes across as sort of faults like someone is trying really hard to have that kind of thug persona and it's not real but it really smelled authentic with him and the fact that he'd been shot nearly died you know just kind of added to that aura but there was something very real about and very authentic in a culture where so much isn't real I think that was the deep deep appeal in a primal sense of 50s music and when I was writing the war book I was trying to get myself in a martial mood to write it I would actually listen to his music to kind of put me in the mood to write some of the chapters that in beta that in Beethoven

Adam has a new book, The Real Work on the Mystery of Mastery, in which he follows masters of their craft to find out just how they do what they do.

It's a book to talk around.

I deliberately dropped George Plimpton's name in the opening chapter.

George Plimpton did these wonderful books, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears about his own engagement as an amateur.

His book Mad Ducks and Bears is one of the most entertaining sports books ever written.