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Leadership fatigue isn’t always caused by workload. Scott Smith explores how unresolved judgment quietly accumulates and why unfinished decisions create cognitive weight beneath the surface.

🎙️ Episode Summary

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” — Epictetus

There’s a kind of weight leaders carry that doesn’t come from how much they’re doing. It comes from what they’ve not decided.

In this episode, Scott Smith examines how unfinished decisions create cognitive pressure that never truly rests. When judgments are touched but not closed, they don’t disappear. They linger beneath the surface, creating a constant sense of weight that leaders often mislabel as busyness or overload.

This is not an episode about fixing or acting. It’s about awareness. About noticing what you’re still carrying, and how long you’ve been carrying it.

🧠 What You’ll Learn Today
• Why leadership fatigue is often misdiagnosed
• How unresolved judgment quietly accumulates
• The difference between urgency and cognitive weight
• Why unfinished decisions never truly rest
• How awareness precedes discipline in leadership

🔍 Tags:
Stoicism, Epictetus, Leadership, Judgment, Decision-Making, Cognitive Load, Inner Strategy

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