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“Before you can make things better, you have to stop making them worse” Incredibly great advice. Especially when trying to resolve an already broken situation.
by bushbaba 5y ago
“Before you can make things better, you have to stop making them worse”
Incredibly great advice. Especially when trying to resolve an already broken situation.
- hinkley 5y agoSee also: if you’re standing in a hole, stop digging.
- mandeepj 5y agoMaybe, it’s not easy to realize, you are in a hole. Or, at least, not during early stage
- marcosdumay 5y agoWell, of course you can only stop digging after you realize you are on a hole. This phrase is intended for people that once discover they are in an always deepening hole panic and do nothing (or worse) because they see no way to completely fix the situation.
- RHSman2 5y agoWe are all in a hole.
- colechristensen 5y agoNotable failures both personally experienced and famous usually involve great amplifications of the issue resulting from attempts to fix, often with increasingly urgent and hasty actions.
- disgrunt 5y agoYes, the adage should be "changes for the better start with changes for the worse."
- KineticLensman 5y ago"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
- Beldur 5y agoWhile playing the game of GO, I learned something related: Don't go on a hunt when your house is on fire
- tacitusarc 5y agoRelated: if your house is on fire, that’s an emergency. If your house is on fire every week, that’s a Tuesday