ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that doing good work well entails exploring the tensions between the impartial and the universal on the one hand and the selective and particular on the other. The former are the values that underpin the formulation of and adherence to ethical guidelines. As Tim Ingold's has pointed out, drawing lines on a sketched out map and telling a story have much in common, namely the spirit of travelling light and being in relation. This is emblematic of the process of living with defeat and persisting in doing good work well in challenging circumstances. Ingold's distinction between wayfaring and travelling has proven useful in considering what it means to do good work well. The chapter discusses the phenomenon to which that poem gave access, namely what the literary critic Michael Wood described as 'seeing and thinking at the same time'.
