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It should be simple, but...

7 October 2026

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It should be simple, but...

Jack could solve this for his team in five minutes.

For himself? He's been staring at it for a week.

It should be simple. But…

Why do other people's problems always look so much simpler than our own?

#Leadership #Wellbeing #LeadershipCoaching

It's rarely the problem that's complicated.

In The Understanding Field Manual (The Pattern) I put it like this: “The difficulty lies not in the problem itself but in the limits of the thinking we bring to it.” https://amzn.eu/d/0edFNrLU

Natasha Swerdolff and I explored this in “Life can be easier than you think”: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2132149/episodes/19549513