# Chapter 302

Some really great leadership conversations this week where I realize more and more that I don’t have the answers to most difficult questions and neither does anyone else. We are all looking for those answers and we aren’t giving those questions nearly enough of our thinking bandwidth nor nearly enough intense focus to come to some good resolutions anytime soon. We are thinking about these problems, these difficult to resolve challenges, in the cracks, a moment here and a moment there, or a quick conversation here and a quick conversation there. This is not an approach that will lend itself to a swift resolution.

These kinds of situations demand intentional deep focus, unrelenting mental pressure, a lot of mental horsepower applied over a long haul to get this baby moving and resolving. More and more I am starting to think that few people have every tried to resolve something with the force demanded by problems of this caliber. Unfortunately neither have I nearly often enough. The terrible fractured urgencies of modern western life are deadly in disrupting this kind of thinking and focus and thought. Heck it is hard to have any thoughts! The noise and bluster and volume of life here is like an unpenetratable fog of defense against all thinking and focus. You and I need a cabin in the woods, far from all internet and tv’s and radios and people, where we can think and focus. How to create that in our real lives every day?