Prevention

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Claim

Prevention can be considered as a type of Multiplier amplifies results through enhanced tools or behaviors, because we handle a problem while it is still small or even non existent, instead of dealing it with when it is large, complicated or urgent.

Explanation

It is also a form of One-time effort investment yields future benefits, we make an initial investment now in order to save much more down the road. It is a much easier and healthier version of We prefer avoiding losses over gaining equivalent value because we take care of problems while the risk is low.

Prevention requires us first to know what we are trying to prevent, and take a proactive approach rather than dealing with problems as they arise.

Why it matters

Since Problems have a Actions spread effects across people and time beyond initial cause, preventing problems in advance solves much more than the immediate effect.

Examples

For example, a process of Pre-mortem anticipates failure modes to enable preparation might help us discover in advance what could go wrong and what can we do about it. A certain disease might be so taxing that you would have to quit work, so taking a vaccine against that disease saves you not only from that illness, but also from losing your job.

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