The person who learns to improvise becomes difficult for circumstances to corner.

Improvisation is the ability to produce a workable response from whatever is available, and it is learned rather than innate. Someone with it cannot really be cornered, because the absence of the expected resource is a normal condition rather than a stopping point.

Practise on small things where the stakes are low. Cook without the ingredient, fix something with the wrong tool. The habit transfers, and it changes how much of life can actually stop you.