Why Do I Ache A Week After The Gym

The Craftsman by Richard Sennett

It 's a book that makes one think. On the most basic things and granted in our daily lives. So Rates do not notice them even more.
The use of hands, for example, has become a skill undertone.
The use of hands as skills related to thought, to deduct the rational implementation.
The "know how" everything has moved on intellectual abilities. Knowing how to use your hands just know how to use a keyboard, touch screen, mouse, remote control, a keyboard of a machine. As in the game.
capacity of observation, deduction and repair we have definitely lost. If something breaks, something concrete, simply replace it, if not directly buy back everything we have Ikea, Leroy Merlin, Trony, Ebay. Even we look to understand how it is made and maybe just replace a screw.

Our business activity has become the consumption function consumption.

And in the end our hands more and more detached from our minds: how to deal with the virtual reality and if it provides us with an iPhone application that mimics a cold or hot on the video phone, was thrilled as a big victory for progress.
We have fire and ice in nature, but prefer their virtual imitations.

Re-learn how to use your hands, get the manual, it means re-teach the mind to emancipate themselves and stimulating their spirit of survival.
A concrete example

told by Mauro Corona.
Two spouses were lost while hiking in a forest and were found frozen to death some days later. In his pocket, one of the two, had an entire box of matches.
The two have died, because they can not light a fire to warm up. Dramatic, but true.

From the back cover: "Being able to do good things for your pleasure: a simple and strict rule of life that has allowed the development of refined techniques and the emergence of modern scientific knowledge. Fabbri, jewelers, instrument makers united material knowledge and manual dexterity: the mind and hand worked reinforcement, an ensign to the other and vice versa. But is not the only manual work to take advantage of the synergy between theory and practice. Because those who know how to govern themselves and self determination and respect for rules, Sennett argues, not only will build a beautiful violin, a perfect mechanism, or watch from a bridge capable of challenging the millennia, but will also be a citizen right. The Craftsman tells of Roman engineers and jewelers of the Renaissance, the eighteenth-century Parisian printers and factories of industrial London, a historic route through which Sennett reconstructs the fault lines that separate technical and espressione.arte and crafts, creation and application. The best example of "know how" modern? the group that created Linux, the craftsmen of the modern computer cathedral "