Principlev1
Frustration signals a gap between current state and possible
Frustration signals a gap between current state and possible state; cataloguing frustrations systematically creates an empirically grounded innovation roadmap where repeated frustrations indicate high-leverage improvement opportunities.
Why This Is a Principle
Grounds to Meaning as Receiver Construction (meaning constructed by receivers), Externalization Exposes Hidden Structure (externalization exposing gaps), and Automatic Pattern Perception (automatic pattern detection with biases). This principle prescribes treating frustration as diagnostic data and provides a method (systematic cataloguing) for converting emotional signals into actionable improvements. General enough to apply across domains.