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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
— published 2009 — 22 editions |
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“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He can simply point: the building stands, the car now runs, the lights are on. Boasting is what a boy does, because he has no real effect in the world. But the tradesman must reckon with the infallible judgment of reality, where one’s failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away. His well-founded pride is far from the gratuitous “self-esteem” that educators would impart to students, as though by magic.”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
“I used to try to hypnotize myself into a Zen-like state of resignation at the outset. It doesn't work, not for this grasshopper. I have my own process, as they say. I call it the motherfucker process.”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
“I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976. My teammates started pointing because there was this uproar" (Nadia Comaneci). These remarks highlight an important feature of those practices that entail skilled and active engagement: one's attention is focused on standards intrinsic to the practice, rather than external goods that may be won through the practice, typically money or recognition. Can this distinction between internal and external goods inform our understanding of work?”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
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