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> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/i-used-to-try-to-hypnotize-myself-into-a-zen-like-state-of/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

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## More by Matthew B. Crawford

> [“The idea of autonomy denies that we are born into a world that existed prior to us. It posits an essential aloneness; an autonomous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/the-idea-of-autonomy-denies-that-we-are-born-into-a-world-that/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/when-the-point-of-education-becomes-the-production-of-credentials/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/the-satisfactions-of-manifesting-oneself-concretely-in-the-world/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/i-used-to-try-to-hypnotize-myself-into-a-zen-like-state-of/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/an-external-reward-can-affect-one-s-interpretation-of-one-s-own/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“...if we follow the traces of our own actions to their source, they intimate some understanding of the good life. This understanding may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/if-we-follow-the-traces-of-our-own-actions-to-their-source-they/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/i-was-nearing-a-familiar-point-where-i-ve-descended-through-every/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“The truth about idiocy... is that it is at once an ethical and cognitive failure... The Greek idios means 'private,' and idiotes means a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/the-truth-about-idiocy-is-that-it-is-at-once-an-ethical-and-cognitive/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“The lover of excellence is prone to being drawn out of himself, erotically almost, in a way that the universalist egalitarian is not. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/the-lover-of-excellence-is-prone-to-being-drawn-out-of-himself/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976. My teammates started pointing because there was this uproar"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/i-did-not-even-look-at-the-scoreboard-when-my-routine-was-done-in/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/there-is-a-classic-psychology-experiment-that-seems-to-confirm-brewer/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“Stripped of the kind of judgments that are at the very heart of the idea of "credit", shot through with bad faith, \[the mortgage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/stripped-of-the-kind-of-judgments-that-are-at-the-very-heart-of-the/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“...it is often the case that when things get really hairy, you want an experienced human being in control. The preference for algorithms over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/it-is-often-the-case-that-when-things-get-really-hairy-you-want-an/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“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)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/we-re-not-as-free-and-independent-as-we-thought-street-level-work/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-b-crawford/his-treatment-of-mechanical-problems-wasn-t-divorced-from-the-worldly/)

[Matthew B. Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-b-crawford/)

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