53: Riffing On Working with Our Minds and Our Hands

This week on the Inside Job Podcast we challenge the notion that work must be defined and limited to the tasks that we can perform using the tools "above our neck". We discuss how important and meaningful it is that we are able to be creative and expressive in our lives, and why we should both value and develop the ability to leverage our hands and our bodies to add value to our work.

We question why many in society differentiate between "meaningful work" and trades. For the two of us, we notice the more time we spend around people who build, maintain, and fix things the more we value not only what they do but we also feel a little jealous that they get to do it.

We recognize that many of us need to have room in our careers and/or our lives to introduce things that we make; that we need to experience the sense of accomplishment when we create something, or when we have something to show for our work. We know that when we can see the impact of what we do, then we experience more meaning in our work and in our lives.

It's a fun conversation, during which we:

• Liken PowerPoint to the Dementors in Harry Potter
• Talk about Ben Affleck and how we're fans even though it's sometimes not popular to admit it out loud
• Laugh at Nayla's inability to draw her family's dog
• Recommend the book "Shop Class as Soulcraft" by Matthew Crawford

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