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Card #c1387IR // #c1387Verbatim excerpt
"…a burnt roux was ruin to your gumbo. If that happened, take the lesson, curse it while you washed the skillet and spoon, but start over."

— Source: Matriarch (Tina Knowles)

[Use when]

You're still trying to salvage something that went wrong too early to fix.

[Why it matters]

Her mother taught the roux as a forty-five-minute rhythm of stirring and talking. Past a certain point no rescue works. The instruction is to accept the loss quickly, keep the lesson and begin again.

Filed under situations:When you’re stuck and running on emptyWhen you’re building the thing, not just planning it

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