Halfway Is a Dangerous Place to Stop

Executive Field Note 050

Recognition often arrives in stages.

First, something no longer fits.

Then an explanation appears.

Relief follows.

The uncertainty has a name.

But naming what happened is not necessarily understanding it.

The first coherent explanation may simply replace confusion with a more comfortable form of certainty.

Recognition began when the old explanation failed.

It does not have to end when the next one arrives.

Executive Question:

What did you stop examining once you found an explanation that worked?

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