

It is to re-introduce humans to skills and information that we’ve known and practiced for generations. Given that the book is on its third edition, the term ‘program’ suits much better. To call it a guidebook or an instructional book would be unfair because it’s vastly different from your average guidebook. The Lost Ways Handbook – All You Need to Know

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This subtle point raised alarm bells in my mind. For her, being a knitter wasn’t a hobby, it was a compulsion.

The author’s grandmother didn’t expect ready-made clothes. He said that his grandparents’ generation hardly had any luxuries that we’re all accustomed to. In the preface, the author speaks briefly about expectations. The publication had a lot of positive reviews so I decided to read its preface. I found this digital publication called ‘ The Lost Ways.’ We’ve given up the skills that our grandparents took decades to hone for Google searches.įeeling a bit ashamed about my overdependency on technology, even to do the most menial tasks, I started looking up guides and books on how to stop this addiction We can see it every day that humans aren’t connected with each other and with the world as we once used to be. I’m sure you didn’t need to verify these stats to be sure of our technology addiction. Checking cell phones can be compared to a disease or an addiction.They didn’t want to miss a single call or notification 50% of cell phone owners admitted to sleeping with their phones right next to them.Mobile phone owners check their screens every 6.5 minutes.84% of cell phone users say that they can’t spend a day without their phones.Have we let all of our ancient customs, practices, and instincts slip because of our dependency on modern technology? I wondered to myself, ‘What would my mother have done without these technological tools?’Īs these thoughts lingered in my head, I started learning more about our dependency on technology as a race. While the project went quite well, I was very disappointed in the way we executed the process of building a simple birdhouse. Then, we had to order some stuff from Amazon. We couldn’t kickstart the project without watching a YouTube tutorial first. I was recently asked by my daughter to help her out with her arts and crafts assignments.īeing a son of an ardently helpful mother, I was excited to share all the knowledge that she had accumulated down to my daughter.īut to my surprise, when I sat down to build a birdhouse (that was the project), I found myself to be utterly helpless. Welcome to my comprehensive review of the Lost Ways book by Claude Davis…
