The Manual Manual: Your guide to learning creative handwork

By Strother Purdy

The Antidote to the Stresses of the Digital Age If work is a four-letter word, leisure your escape, and neither satisfies, then this book is your antidote. Before industrialization, making things for the people in our lives was how our species survived and thrived. Hand work was all work, and it was the central, joyful process of life. Creative making was our purpose. Today, we work because we must. To make smartphones and electric cars, work has become industrialized and digitized. It can be hard to find purpose or value in our jobs when they are insignificant contributions to giant enterprises. Driven by necessity and fear, we believe that success, or that the idle leisure it buys, will eventually make us happy. But instead we pay for our modern technology with increasing rates of depression and anxiety. Pleasure is the original motivation for work, feeling fully alive its reward We can't all quit our day jobs and survive in the Digital Age. But we can access the joy of workmanship--and truly pursue happiness--by finding creative work that fits our inclinations. This book is your guide to access the deeply pleasurable, satisfying, and meaningful process of making things by hand, whether as a hobby or a profession.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F62MH6D8
• ISBN13: 9798280199323
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 177 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"