Matthew Crawford’s an interesting bloke. He has a doctorate in Political Philosophy, used to head up a Washington think tank and left it all behind to work with his hands as a mechanic. His book The Case For Working With Your Hands is excellent – a eulogy for one of the non-typical intelligences.
“our testaments to physical work are so often focused on the values such work exhibits rather than the thought it requires. It is a subtle but pervasive omission … It as though in our cultural iconography we are given the muscled arm, sleeve rolled tight against biceps, but no thought bright behind the eye, no image that links hand and brain”
– from The Mind At Work, Mike Rose