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Injury-prone athletes are often diagnosed with poor tissue tolerance, i.e., the inability of their ligaments, bone structures, and soft tissues to work together to effectively absorb the force demands of their sport.

What's interesting is that most athletes agree that, in contrast to tissue tolerance, VO2 max, stamina, and explosiveness are all second- or third-order problems.

Rather, problems of increasing VO2 max, stamina, and explosiveness are, in a way, 'rewards' that athletes with great tissue tolerance earn.

This is likely the reason why elite soccer academies enlist athletes as minors—so that they can engineer the right kind of tissue tolerance early on. Unlike muscles, which are easy to train over weeks or months, correct tissue tolerance can take years or even decades.

This is also likely the reason why casual runners in their late 30s, can find ultra-marathon form in their early 40s.

In the business world, when assessing root cause analysis, our instinctive bias is to identify something that can be 'explosively' addressed. Often, the very need to do a root cause analysis is evidence that superficial remedies and data points simply do not work.

All root cause analysis problems are, thus, tissue tolerance problems.

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