Plan Before Trouble
Updated 2026-08-22
INTRODUCTION
English translation pending.
CORE DEFINITION
Tu yu wei ran means to plan and prepare while the danger is still absent, rather than digging a well only when the thirst has already arrived. It stands with the older teaching: act where nothing has yet appeared, and govern where there is not yet disorder. As a model it is forward risk management, investing in prevention during the calm instead of paying for repair during the crisis.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Rehearse the failure: run the pre-mortem on a critical item before it breaks - Invest in the calm: spend on defenses and slack while conditions are still quiet - Watch the leading edge: monitor early signals instead of waiting for the alarm
Anchor fast decisions
Damage is cheap to prevent while the cause is still absent and expensive to repair once it has spread, because an incident propagates through connections that are hard to reverse. Preparation made in calm is chosen rather than extorted, so it can be designed against the actual chain instead of being improvised against the symptoms already in view.
MINIMUM ACTION
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- zh.wikipedia.orghttps://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%84%E5%B8%9D%E5%86%85%E7%BB%8Fverified
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