Pressure rarely shows up in dramatic moments.

Pressure rarely shows up in dramatic moments.

It hides in the quiet ones.

The slightly slower decision. The meeting where your timing is half a beat off. The email you rewrite three times because something feels “off” but you can’t name it.

Pressure doesn’t announce itself. It seeps into thinking. It reshapes how you judge risk. It narrows your field of view without you noticing.

Most leaders only recognise pressure when it finally explodes into a big moment.

By then, distortion has already been shaping decisions for weeks.

The people who stay sharp aren’t tougher. They’re more aware of the early signals.

That awareness is trainable.

What’s the quiet signal you’ve been ignoring?

I built a short diagnostic for exactly this. Five minutes. It tends to explain the drift.

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