Buttocks Without Skin
Updated 2026-08-22
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
Tun wu fu, the buttocks without skin, is from the fourth line of the Kuai hexagram in the Book of Changes: the buttocks lack skin, walking is unsteady, the led goat is lost, and words spoken are not believed. The idiom describes a manager so anxious that no position can be held, while the goat, the existing assets and advantages, is lost in the restlessness. The core proposition is that strategic resolve is itself capital, and that frequent direction changes under emotional pressure cost more than the problems they try to solve.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Resolve audit: ask whether the latest direction change answers new evidence or only anxiety. - Asset guard: name the existing advantages that a sudden pivot would forfeit. - Emotion delay: require a cooling interval between bad news and any strategic change.
Anchor fast decisions
Anxiety prioritizes relief from discomfort over accuracy, so each new signal triggers a new direction and no direction is held long enough to compound. The led goat is lost because attention keeps moving, and with it credibility erodes, so each later decision is more likely to be doubted. Instability rather than the original problem becomes the binding constraint.
MINIMUM ACTION
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- zh.wikipedia.orghttps://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%A8%E6%98%93verified
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