Failure of Nerve: Leadership in an Age of the Quick FIx

30Jul11

Whether we are considering a toothache, a tumour, a relational bind, a technical problem, crime or the economy, most individuals and most social systems, irrespective of their culture, gender, or ethnic background, will “naturally” choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense anguish of acute conditions that are the gateway to being free. But what is also universally true is that over time, chronic conditions, precisely because they are more bearable, also tend to be more withering.” p. 60, 61

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