Roughly 600 businesses close somewhere in America every day. The closing gets attention. The eighteen months after it, where the actual rebuilding happens, almost never does.
Quiet cracking is spreading through offices right now, and the employees hiding it best are usually the ones everyone assumes are thriving.
The moment between the fourth failure and the fifth attempt is where most people quit. Not because the pain is worst. Because the math stops making sense.
Not the fall. Not the comeback. The unnamed middle where you are technically functioning but internally rebuilding from materials you have never used before.