Having a “craft” means bringing discipline and love to what you do. It’s thousands of hours of practicing your musical instrument so that when the time comes, you can play.
It’s writing every day until you break through to something sublime. It could be making pots, writing poetry, learning martial arts, or being a transcendent manager or leader.
It’s wax on, wax off.
In its most significant sense, a craft could be anything. It’s an activity that you finally stop viewing as mindless and make it something else. It’s doing something so well, so beautifully, that just doing it is its own reward. It’s being completely present and accounted for.
Then it’s a craft.
Then it’s art.
Then, it’s a meditation.
Then it’s a door into something else.