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THE WORLD BEYOND YOUR HEAD - MATTHEW B CRAWFORD...

In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft   Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and
practical importance of manual competence  as expressed through mastery of our physical
environment. In his brilliant follow-up  The World Beyond Your Head   Crawford investigates the
challenge of mastering one's own mind.   We often complain about our fractured mental lives and
feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense
against this  Crawford argues  requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self.
Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs  the
quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts  the familiar hassles of daily life  and the deep 
slow craft of building pipe organs. He shows that our current crisis of attention is only
superficially the result of digital technology  and becomes more comprehensible when understood
as the coming to fruition of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are
profoundly at odds with human nature.   The World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an
astonishing array of common experience  from the frustrations of airport security to the rise
of the hipster. With implications for the way we raise our children  the design of public
spaces  and democracy itself  this is a book of urgent relevance to contemporary life.

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