When I was a a kid, we didn’t have the stringent child labor laws we do today. In grade school I worked the strawberry fields and in high school I graduated up to the raspberry farm, where I got to interact with actual machinery. There’s a lot to be said for getting your hands dirty, and you don’t have to be Amish to benefit from the lessons of hard labor.

#1 - Hard labor facilitates contemplation

Hard labor is pretty much that, hard. Also monotonous. Your energy