Self-insight: Roadblocks And - Detours On The Pat...

Frustrated, Elias canceled his speech and drove into the mountains. He expected a weekend of "strategic thinking" to solve his mental block. Instead, he got a . A mudslide closed the main highway, forcing him into a tiny, signal-less town called Oakhaven.

The detour didn't look like a crisis; it looked like a Wednesday. Elias was preparing for a keynote speech when he realized he couldn’t finish his own "Origin Story" slide. He had written thousands of words for others, but when it came to describing his own motivations, the page stayed blank. Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Pat...

He hit a : a sudden, suffocating inability to explain why he did what he did. He realized he was a man who lived in a house of glass, looking out at everyone else’s flaws, but never seeing his own reflection. The Detour: The Cabin in the Cascades Frustrated, Elias canceled his speech and drove into