The World Beyond Your Head

In 'The World Beyond Your Head', Matthew B. Crawford investigates the intense focus of various professionals such as ice hockey players, short-order chefs, and organ builders, as well as the behaviors of gambling addicts.

He argues that our current attention crisis is a result of certain assumptions in Western culture that are at odds with human nature.

Crawford emphasizes the importance of embodied, social, and situated experiences in forming the self and argues that genuine agency comes from voluntary submission to realities beyond one's own head.

The book has implications for how we raise children, design public spaces, and understand democracy.