"Adaptation, improvisation ... but your weakness is not your technique."
Adaptation is a state of mind. If one holds on to the desired principles, values and goals then adjustments of method will naturally occur, like someone moving north but having to go east and west now and then to dodge mudholes and dangerous forests. The adjustments will resemble detours but the destination will be the one targeted.
The problem arises from when one is determined to follow one path, when one clings so tightly because they have grown so attached to that they crash straight through the forest and the mud and all the obstacles directly in front of them till they bleed to death halfway there. They end up never reaching the goal because they refuse to adapt their methods of reaching that goal.
Like if Amazon had insisted on selling only books. They'd be out of business by now.