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An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
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Mastery of a stochastic art is compatible with failure to achieve its end. As Aristotle writes, "It does not belong to medicine to produce health, but only promote it as much as possible..."
Fixing things, whether cars or human bodies, is very different from building things from scratch. The mechanic and the doctor deal with failure every day, even if they are expert, whereas the builder does not. This is because they fix things that are *not of their own making* and are therefore never known in a comprehensive or absolute way. This experience of failure tempers the conceit of mastery; the doctor and mechanic have daily intercourse with the world as something independent and a vivid awareness of the difference between self and non-self.
Fixing things may be a cure for narcissism.
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