Breakdowns
Not failures to avoid, but openings for new action, at three levels.
A breakdown is any interruption to the smooth flow of action. The tradition treats it not as failure but as the precise place where new action and learning become possible. They come at three levels: the small and quickly solved; the recurrent and visible, which are openings for innovation; and the emergent anomaly at the edges, invisible until it suddenly is not.
Learning to welcome breakdowns, rather than flinch from them, is the difference between someone who is brittle under pressure and someone who gets stronger in it.
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