Human Survival
Field Guide.

SPECIMEN M03 / PAIR 02 · RESPONSIBILITY Human Leech

The borrower of effort

ORIGINAL ARCHIVE

Borrowing Someone Else’s Momentum

It organized a magnificent group effort by finding someone already working. When the work was finished, it accepted congratulations on behalf of the attachment. It was not entirely sure how the task happened, but it sincerely hoped everyone would use the same arrangement next time.

ASSISTANCE · ATTACHMENT · SHARED EFFORT

THE NEED Practical support when skills, confidence or capacity are insufficient.

THE USEFUL CAPACITY Finds assistance and can coordinate shared effort.

WHEN OVERUSED Lets an attachment become an assumption while effort and credit travel in different directions.

FIELD CHECK Receiving practical help is ordinary, including help that cannot be repaid. This mode concerns treating assistance as an unspoken entitlement while leaving responsibilities and credit unclear.

HUMAN POWER / BORROWED SPINE Ask for practical support, learn from another person’s experience and coordinate a shared task with clear responsibilities and credit.

SMALL PRACTICE

Name one kind of help you need, ask whether it is available and agree on your own workable contribution.

MIRROR

What did we actually agree each of us would do?

Support can be received honestly without pretending to be entirely self-sufficient or becoming entitled to another person’s labor.

FAMILIAR CUE Thanks to my leadership:

Delegated the lifting. Retained the bow.