The Case For Working With Your Hands

"....mechanical work has required me to cultivate different intellectual habits. Further, habits of mind have an ethical dimension that we don’t often think about. Good diagnosis requires attentiveness to the machine, almost a conversation with it, rather than assertiveness, as in the position papers produced on K Street. Cognitive psychologists speak of 'metacognition,' which is the activity of stepping back and thinking about your own thinking."

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