Nick Offerman

any sort of oversight, then companies are never going to say, let's make sure we keep this real healthy.

Let's make sure we make these eggs as nutritious as possible and these chickens are happy.

Of course not.

And so in my world, what I can say to people is, I make things out of wood.

My company makes things out of wood.

We pay them, this is four people, we pay a living wage, and you can get a dining table or a three-legged stool or a set of coasters that will last you forever, that's of an incredibly high quality, and we know where our trees came from.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, a huge lesson in the woodshop is go in knowing you're going to screw it up.

Even those of us that are experts at it, we buy extra wood.

We buy scrap wood to start on because we know we're going to make bad cuts.

And so the projects in our book...

There are these great beginner projects that just involve like gluing a couple pieces of wood together or making a box kite out of sticks and cork and paper.

Even those, you're totally going to screw up.

Like anything that is worth doing, you're going to mess up your first few tries.

And so you're going to find out what people's strengths are.

Some of your kids might be great with a hammer.

Some are definitely going to be terrible with a hammer.

but they might be really good with a tape measure or addition and subtraction or Band-Aids or baking cookies.

But only by engaging in the world and getting our hands dirty do we find out what our calling is.

And, you know, I mean, when I was growing up,