Adam Gopnik: Doing

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“Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.”

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

“The reality is simple: every country struggles with madmen and ideologues with guns, and every country--Canada, Norway, Britain--has had a gun massacre once, or twice. Then people act to stop them, and they do--as over the past few years has happened in Australia. Only in America are gun massacres of this kind routine, expectable, and certain to continue.”

One More Massacre, The New Yorker (2012)

“The truth is made worse by the reality that no one--really no one--anywhere on the political spectrum has the courage to speak out about the madness of unleashed guns and what they do to American life.”

One More Massacre, The New Yorker (2012)

“[M]ath prodigies are set somewhat apart from the more general-capacity prodigies, being seemingly possessed of a weird bit of wiring more than an over-all enhanced capacity for learning to do things.”

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

“Accomplishment, the feeling of absorption in the flow, of mastery for its own sake, of knowing how to do this thing, is what keeps all of us doing what we do, if we like what we do at all.”

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

“Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.”

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)