Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction Audiobook (Free)

Within an era whenever there are countless competing claims about one’s attention, so how exactly does one find the inner focus to be creative? For get good at furniture craftsman Gary Rogowski, the response is in the act of creative work itself. The discipline of dealing with one’s hands to make unnecessarily beautiful things shapes the contractor into a more complete human being.

In the tradition of Zen as well as the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Shop Class as Soulcraft, Rogowski’s Handmade is a profound meditation over the eternal value of manual work, creativity, human fallibility, as well as the stubborn pursuit of quality function. Rogowski tells his existence story of how he became a craftsman and how years of prolonged function have taught him tolerance, resilience, tolerance for failing, and a like of pursuing beauty and mastery because of its own sake.

Part autobiography, part guide to creativity, and part guide to living, Handmade is a reserve for craftspeople, performers, and anyone who also seeks clarity, purpose, and creativeness within their work-and it’s the ideal antidote to a modern world that thinks individual labor is obsolete.