Curing the Culture of Distraction

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 27, 2015

Matthew Crawford, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft
and The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), argues the cure for distraction is more than just turning our devices off, but deeply engaging with the physical and social world.

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