Autumnal
Bruce Baugh, Writer of Fortune
The thing is that I have an advantage in fairly discrete, identifiable problems. Many people I’ve known are dragged by things they haven’t yet been able to name but which are just as significant.
Some really do just need to tell them that they can do it, and therefore that they should. Others need someone to tell them that right now they can’t, and that therefore they shouldn’t torment themselves in doomed efforts, and to illuminate what’s dragging so yet they can get the right kinds of help. And we genuinely can’t know from outside who’s whom.
(And I’m confident you’d agree that in practice most of us need both - part of doing it is knowing how to avoid the minefields and quicksand and all.)
Some really do just need to tell them that they can do it, and therefore that they should. Others need someone to tell them that right now they can’t, and that therefore they shouldn’t torment themselves in doomed efforts, and to illuminate what’s dragging so yet they can get the right kinds of help. And we genuinely can’t know from outside who’s whom.
(And I’m confident you’d agree that in practice most of us need both - part of doing it is knowing how to avoid the minefields and quicksand and all.)