Tool breakdowns reveal the world’s stubbornness and our disorientation.

Evidence

Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. … People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 300 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tools disappear from awareness during successful use but surface when they fail. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 233; Small tool failures can cascade into wholesale life questioning. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 237; Failures flip tools from ready-to-hand to present-at-hand objects. (+3 more)

Related

• Faulty tools lead to repeated failures in life choices. (similarity 0.91)
• Small tool failures can cascade into wholesale life questioning. (similarity 0.85)
• Breakdown reveals tools as inert objects rather than extensions of our projects (similarity 0.81)
• Failures flip tools from ready-to-hand to present-at-hand objects. (similarity 0.81)
• Tools disappear from awareness during successful use but surface when they fail. (similarity 0.81)
• Broken equipment discloses the world’s obstinacy and our situated confusion (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Faulty tools lead to repeated failures in life choices. #expands (0.80) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 300