If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. We over-apply the one skill or method we know best.
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A surgeon leans toward operating; a physician toward pills — the fix often matches the specialty, not the patient.
Every business issue becomes 'let's build an app', even when a phone call would solve it.
A legal mind sees contracts and liability where a simpler trust-based fix would do.
What worked for the first child gets hammered onto the second, who needs something completely different.
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