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Execute

Continue what another began and keep every decision they made; no starting over.

Süssmayr finishing Mozart's Requiem.

Seen in Franz Xaver Süssmayr, completion of Mozart's Requiem, K. 626, 1792

Try it on your work

With your hands

Take an unfinished thing someone else made, with their blessing, and continue it in its own direction, not yours: their logic, their standards, as best you can read them, for one full session. Where you couldn't tell their intention from your preference is the finding.

In words

Continue someone else's written or spoken line of thought for three paragraphs or three minutes, as them: their vocabulary, their moves. Show them; the places they say "I wouldn't say that" are a map of what makes their thinking theirs.

In the process

Adopt a plan you didn't write and execute its next stage without amending it, improvements noted separately rather than applied. The urge-to-amend log is the real output; the stage itself was the excuse.

How it has been used

Take up and continue what another began: the second author finishing the novel, the apprentice completing the master's panel, LeWitt's drawings made by other hands. The move forbids starting over: you inherit the decisions already made and work forward from them, including the ones you'd never have made.

Where it leads

Grouped under Move the decision or responsibility

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