Good presenter. Good talk.
We just hosted a friend's daughter for a week - 14yo, 91 pounds. We did amazing things - backpacking, scrambling summits, seeing sequoia trees. She loved it all, but when given a choice, she kept asking if we could go back to the construction site and work on our friend's house. She has grown up in a wealthy community and literally doesn't know anyone in the trades and doesn't seem to know anyone who even practices a trade around the house for fun or practical reasons.
She spent one whole afternoon non-stop hammering pegs out of concrete forms. We spent another few days hammering pegs, stripping concrete form panels that weighed 75% as much as she does, running a grinder, sparks flying, to cut a stuck peg and trim some ties sticking out of the concrete, blowing loose debris off the wall with a pressure washer to prep for waterproofing treatment and so on. She wielded a massive crowbar as big as she is, fired up a small chainsaw (16" bar) to cut a bunch of limbs (really wanted to fell a tree, but we didn't have one that needed felling).
I taught her to swing a machete, not because it was the easiest or most practical way to trim the bush in question, but because it was unquestionably more fun and impressive than the loppers. When I demoed taking a limb off in one quick swing, her eyes and mouth went big... then she spent the next half hour perfecting her swing. Her first branch took her a dozen swings, but she eventually got it down and was taking them off in a swing or two by the end. She hauled branches. Did all sorts of things including some pretty hard labor for three days. She has a lot of energy - after swinging a hammer in the hot sun for the afternoon, she insisted we go for a 6-mile run so she could get her miles in because she wants to be on the hihg school cross-country team this coming year.
Anyway, watching the pleasure she took in hard work, made me think back to the comments at the end of the video. In a world often filled with bullshit work, especially in eighth grade, I could see she felt really gratified to effect physical change in the world and she took great pleasure in the camaraderie and team spirit on the job site.
I counted that she learned to use six hand tools and four power tools she had never touched before.