Matthew B. Crawford on Practical Philosophy and Shop Class as Soulcraft | This is The Opinion To Care About
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🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to author Matthew B. Crawford about his New York Times bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft (which you can pick up at the Painted Porch), why philosophy must be practiced and experienced in actual life rather than in the classroom, our inherent fear of death and how it impacts our day to day existence, 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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired |
| 0:10.1 | by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength |
| 0:16.1 | and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:19.2 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known |
| 0:25.1 | and obscure, fascinating and powerful. With them, we discuss the strategies and habits |
| 0:30.5 | that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their |
| 0:36.4 | actual lives. But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. |
| 0:41.3 | Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person. |
| 0:45.2 | You want to know the latest sports news, but don't want to sit through a two-hour podcast. |
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| 0:53.9 | Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.6 | This is the opinion to care about. The knock against the Los Angeles Rams for seasons |
| 1:08.6 | now is that they've traded away too many of their first round draft picks. Monday morning |
| 1:14.2 | quarterbacks and living room GMs seem to be convinced that they know better. And so does |
| 1:19.6 | most of the sports media who hasn't been afraid to criticize the team's moves, especially |
| 1:25.2 | after setbacks and losses. Less need the GM of the Rams who I interviewed on the Daily |
| 1:30.6 | Stoke podcast back in August told us his strategy for ignoring the noise while building |
| 1:37.6 | his second Super Bowl team in four years. I've taken a lot of the wisdom from the Stelox. |
| 1:43.4 | He said, I intentionally practice stoicism enough to know, okay, this comment or this |
| 1:49.1 | tweet or this simple take shouldn't disrupt or even ruffle my emotion. I'm also aware |
| 1:55.8 | that good television requires debates. Someone has to take the side that the Rams are doing |
| 2:00.8 | cool things and somebody has to take the side that they're not. Then they banter about |
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