Daily Dad and Author Matthew Crawford on Leading Your Kids By Example
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Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to author Matthew Crawford about his New York Times bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft (which you can pick up at the Painted Porch), how to lead your kids by example, our dependency on tools, and more.
Matthew B. Crawford is an American writer and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is a contributing editor at The New Atlantis, and is also a motorcycle mechanic. He is the author of the instant bestseller Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work as well as The World Beyond Your Head and Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road.
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| 0:12.9 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world. |
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| 1:43.1 | weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. I was raving over at Daily Stoke about Matthew Crawford, who wrote this fantastic book, Shop Class, Soulcraft, which I think is a book that all parents need to read to understand how we, in this digital world, teach our kids the importance of doing things with their hands. |
| 2:03.6 | And a love of craft and manual labor for its own sake. |
| 2:08.9 | And when I was talking to Matthew, who also has children, I wanted to talk about some parenting things. |
| 2:15.5 | And so in today's episode, I'm going to bring you some thoughts on parenting, part of my parenting conversation with the one and only Matthew |
| 2:22.6 | Crawford. Matthew is an American writer. He's a research fellow at the University of Virginia. |
| 2:29.2 | He has a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Chicago. But his classic book, Shop Class of Soulcraft, was a massive bestseller. |
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