Stage 2. Stop Breaking Things
Stage 2 - Stop Breaking Things
Completing Stage 2
Remember Your Why
Write down why you're doing this work. Not the general reason - your specific one. You'll be reminded of it as you go.
When the Gate Opens
Once you've held 7 consecutive days at 3.0 or higher in Sexual Impropriety, all four categories have individually cleared, and the gate to Stage 3 opens. That's the whole requirement - there is no further phase, and no all-four-at-once check before Stage 3 unlocks.
Worth being honest about what this does and doesn't prove. It proves you can see each of these four patterns clearly and interrupt it, one at a time, under whatever conditions came up during that category's weeks. It doesn't re-confirm that Violence and Harm - the first thing you worked, weeks or months ago - is still holding today. Carry the tracking forward anyway. Stage 3 assumes all four keep running in the background, and the only thing that makes that assumption true is you continuing to notice, not a checkpoint built into this stage.
This Takes as Long as It Takes
There's no fixed timeline for any of the four categories, and that's not a problem. What each one's gate measures is a genuine, sustained pattern shift - not a day count. Many students spend months moving through all four. That's normal and appropriate. Rushing to reach the more interesting material ahead is exactly how a student hits a ceiling in Stage 3 without understanding why.
If a category is still primarily visible only in retrospect - if you're catching it after rather than during - you're not ready to move on. Go back and work it with more precision. There's no clock running against you.
What you build here is not a moral record. It's the foundation everything after this assumes you built honestly.
What the Gate Opening Means
Stage 3 does not leave this work behind. All four categories continue to be tracked throughout Stage 3 and beyond - the tracking becomes background, less effortful, more automatic, but it doesn't stop. What you built here is infrastructure. Infrastructure runs continuously; it doesn't get retired.
Stage 3 adds a different layer - the interior contradictions that drive the behaviors you've been tracking. You'll recognize them immediately. They're the machinery underneath what you've been observing for the past weeks.
You are ready.