What Is This Problem
Designed to Solve?
For when you realise you can’t keep doing this.
You are highly capable. You are also exhausted. The problem you think you have — the overwork, the firefighting, the pace. It is real. But it isn’t the problem.
This short book introduces a question that changes what you’re listening for. Not a framework to execute. A way of seeing that reveals what pushing and fixing never could.
It takes 45 minutes to read. The problem you have been trying to solve is the key you have been looking for.
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Four ways of staying with a problem
until it shows you what it actually is.
Before you try to change anything, acknowledge what is actually happening. The real version. Not the one you’d describe to a colleague.
Step away from the problem. Reconnect with what you’re trying to create. Not fix. The vision does not need to be dramatic. It needs to be true.
Stop asking how. Start asking who. Asking who means letting someone else into the problem. That’s not weakness. That’s the beginning of something useful.
Even after you find a solution that works, stay a moment longer. Fierce curiosity doesn’t confuse feeling better with knowing what is true.
“You are capable. You can carry almost anything. The real question is whether you should.”
Then sit with it inside The Signal.
The Signal is a seven-minute guided reflection tool built around the same four lenses. You bring the problem. It helps you see what the problem is actually pointing toward.
Read the book first. Then use The Signal when something is pressing and you need to slow down and listen to what it’s trying to tell you.
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Rita Hausken
Thinking Partner for Women Who Are Here to Change Things
Founder, Shestainability
I did not learn this from a textbook. I learned it by living inside impossible situations.
When doctors told me to prepare for my son’s death, I refused to accept the limits put in front of us. I became his advocate, challenged accepted norms, pushed for new solutions, and found my voice in rooms where being quiet was never an option.
That experience shaped how I see leadership. When the stakes are real, you stop asking how to look good and start asking what must be done.
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