Go To on Shop Class As Soulcraft

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Kelly dives into a book that's been consuming her thoughts at dinner parties and conferences alike: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford. It's the story of a guy with a PhD in political philosophy who walked away from a cushy think tank job to open a motorcycle repair shop - and has never been happier. Crawford's book flips everything we think we know about success and asks why we've decided that working with your hands is somehow less valuable than working with your mind. It's an episode about attention, satisfaction and that thrilling "I did it myself" feeling that comes from actually fixing something instead of just buying a replacement. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the year 2000.
0:02.8	Everyone, everywhere, is having fun, except me.
0:06.6	On BBC Eye Player.
0:08.0	I worry you're growing up too fast.
0:10.6	Yeah, we can't be your little ducky forever, can I?
0:13.0	Inspired by a true story.
0:14.8	Walk out of this house a boy, one day you'll come back.
0:17.8	When you do, you will be a man.
0:20.2	I won't hold your breath. What it feels like for a girl. I wish I could look like you. come back. When you do, you will be a man. Oh, and hard your breath.
0:21.5	What it feels like for a girl. I wish I could look like you.
0:24.7	Bebe, you can. Well, don't you?
0:27.0	Watch on BBC IPlayer. Hey, everybody.
0:41.0	This short segment is called a go-to.
0:44.9	It refers back to this crazy thing we used to do at the end of our sorority meetings in college.
0:49.1	If you can believe that, it was called for the good of the order.
0:51.5	And it was a way to share something that had emerged over the course of the week, which really was a bit of learning or thinking or feeling that was to everyone's benefit to share.
1:04.3	And so that's all we'll do here. Every Friday, we release a go-to, and we encourage you to share it with friends around the country.
1:11.7	We know that people use it as a way to stay in touch with their best friends across the country
1:16.5	and, of course, far-flung family members, wherever they might be.
1:21.3	And as for your local nearest and dearest, consider it fodder for discussion over the course of the weekend.
1:27.7	This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders in our weekly segment called GoTo.
1:34.7	So I've been obsessed with this book I read. It's called Shop Class, a Soulcraft.
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