A Craftsman’s Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning Audiobook (Free)

Today, even while so many of us spend hours before displays and in the virtual globe, there’s a growing movement that recognizes the energy in the personal, the imperfect, the handmade. Eric Gorges, a metal shaper, taps into that food cravings to make contact with what’s ‘true’ through appointments with the fellow artisans he offers profiled for his well-known public television program. In this book, he tells their stories and stocks the collective intelligence of calligraphers, potters, rock carvers, glassblowers, about A Craftsman’s Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Provides Us Indicating engravers, wood workers, and even more while celebrating the tradition they’ve created.

Filled with insights about the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of craftsmanship, A Craftsman’s Legacy recognizes the craftsman’s distributed values: taking time to slow down and revel in the process, embracing failure, knowing when to stop so when to force through, and receiving that perfection can be an illusion. Gorges extols the benefits of getting out of one’s comfort zone and the importance of learning the traditions of days gone by in order to bring those values in to the future. On the way, Gorges tells his very own story about departing the corporate world to focus on what he adores. That is a reserve for seekers of all kinds, an exhilarating check out the core of modern-day makers-and how they are able to inspire people.