If you've made good building blocks then you can respond to surprises and use them to tackle things you never imagined.

You're better able to respond to disconfirming evidence and surprises.

You have a lot of useful components on hand to combine.

The likelihood you have a viable combination in the set goes up combinatorially.

Being composed of remixable building blocks, that are viable on their own but have combinatorial possibility, makes you more alive.

Building blocks give you a combinatorial coverage in an adjacent possible.