A trap: thinking "Ugh this place is so dysfunctional, I need to find a place that's not dysfunctional."

Every single assemblage of humans is dysfunctional in some way.

Some more than others, but there is no stably non-dysfunctional assemblage of humans.

Don't rail against the dysfunction, figure out how to survive it (or, ideally, surf it) to make things happen that you're proud of.

When you acknowledge that a situation is dysfunctional and you're going to try anyway, you switch from a victim mentality, making excuses, to an open mindset, a growth mindset, curious and scrappy and on a path to self improvement

Of course all of this is modulo some situations are so dysfunctional that the only move is to leave.