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Observing Without Intervening: Why I Stayed in the Doorway
She had been working on the lid for almost four minutes.
A small container. Nothing special. The lid on crooked. She knew it was on crooked. And she kept turning it, adjusting it, setting it down and picking it up again with a slightly different grip. I watched from the doorway.
My whole body wanted to cross the room. To kneel down and show her the quarter-turn that would fix it in four seconds. But I stayed in the doorway.
This episode is about what that costs, and what it gives. About the difference between the click that belongs to them and the click that arrives from your hands. About why…
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