Part 10/12:
The ultimate lesson is that avoiding stupidity—the big, obvious failures—is often more impactful than pursuing brilliance. Over a lifespan, avoiding catastrophic errors compounds into superior success. Effective survival strategies prioritize resilience and stability, with elegance and perfection as secondary goals.
Yakobi understood this, and Manga recognizes the profound truth: sometimes, the shortest and fastest route between two points isn’t a straight line but a careful sidestep around failure modes. Success can be viewed as a process of eliminating ways to fail rather than striving for impossible perfection.