“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 Copy Share Image
“The idea of autonomy denies that we are born into a world that existed prior to us. It posits an essential aloneness; an autonomous… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“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… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“...an external reward can affect one's interpretation of one's own motivation, and interpretation that comes to be self-fulfilling. A similar effect may account for… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“...if we follow the traces of our own actions to their source, they intimate some understanding of the good life. This understanding may be… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“I was nearing a familiar point where I’ve descended through every level of madness and despair, and a certain calm takes over. I was… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“The truth about idiocy... is that it is at once an ethical and cognitive failure... The Greek idios means 'private,' and idiotes means a… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“The lover of excellence is prone to being drawn out of himself, erotically almost, in a way that the universalist egalitarian is not. The… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976. My teammates started pointing because there was this uproar"… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“There is a classic psychology experiment that seems to confirm Brewer's point. Children who enjoy drawing were given marker pens and allowed to go… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“Stripped of the kind of judgments that are at the very heart of the idea of "credit", shot through with bad faith, [the mortgage… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“...it is often the case that when things get really hairy, you want an experienced human being in control. The preference for algorithms over… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“We're not as free and independent as we thought. Street-level work that disrupts the infrastructure (the sewer system below or the electrical grid above)… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
“His treatment of mechanical problems wasn't divorced from the worldly situations in which they arise, and as a result [John Muir's service manual on… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share
