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• Once you know Tier 1 is broken, the question isn’t whether to fix it. The question is how long students should have to wait while adults figure it out.
• While you’re out here trying to figure things out on your own, who is paying the cost?
• The real question isn’t whether you care. It’s how long students should have to wait while adults decide what to do.
• At some point, we have to stop thinking that delay is a constraint and start calling it a cost.
• Broken systems don’t just fail students. They exhaust the adults so thoroughly that even the right solution feels unreachable.
• We’re so busy compensating for bad systems that we have no energy to design or implement better ones. 

By this point in the school year, I see the same pattern play out over and over again: a system isn’t working, so we compensate. We work around the gaps, carry the weight ourselves, and tell ourselves it’s just what this season requires.

But over time, that compensation drains our capacity, and eventually, it drains something even more dangerous: our belief that a better solution is possible.

In this episode, I talk about that “compensation cycle,” how broken systems train us to survive instead of replace, and why awareness alone doesn’t lead to action. If you’ve ever known something needed to change but felt too depleted to even imagine a different way, this episode will help you step out of the compensation cycle and start building real success #LikeABuilder. 

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