On [not] getting to Carnegie Hall
Why do Americans find practice in sports and music heroic, and practicing academics traumatic?
I think about practice a lot; it’s one of my reporting obsessions. Maybe it’s because I am not a natural at anything I care about doing well. Years ago, when I was a singer and dancer in New York City, I wasn’t one of…
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