The Rubik's Cube Nobody Warned You About
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It sat on the kitchen bench for a week.
My son had made it himself — a paper version, folded and assembled from a template he'd found. It looked exactly like the real thing.
Colourful. Intact. Solved.
By the next morning, the real one was in pieces on the floor.
Not broken. Dismantled.
Every single piece separated, laid out, examined. He held each one up, figured out how it connected, understood the mechanism underneath the surface.
Then he put it back together.
That's exactly what happens in leadership.
From the outside, you look fine.
The forecast is in. The team is running. You're hitting the number — or close enough that nobody's asking questions yet.
But something underneath has shifted.
You're slower to decide. Quicker to react. The things that used to energise you now just feel like more weight.
You're not broken. You're dismantled.
And most leaders at this point do one of two things:
They push harder. Or they go quiet.
Neither one works. Because the problem isn't effort. It's that nobody ever taught you what's actually holding you together — so when the pressure pulls at the pieces, you don't know which ones matter most.
My son didn't panic when the Rubik's Cube came apart.
He got curious.
He looked at every piece. Understood the mechanism. Figured out what connected where — and why.
Then he rebuilt it. Better than before, because now he actually understood how it worked.
That's the work.
Not pushing through. Not pretending it's fine. Getting curious about the structure underneath — and rebuilding it with intention.
That's what The Leaders Sanctuary is built for.
Not to fix what's broken. To help you understand how you're wired — and build something more sustainable than what you had before.
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And if you're in the middle of being dismantled right now — start here: theleaderssanctuary.com