Sensinga

You see a situation.

It looks like plain fact. The team is resisting. The client is unreasonable. The market is closing. You are not interpreting anything — you are simply seeing what is there.

You see the glass.

There was always a pane between you and the situation. What you brought to the moment tinted it: what you expected, what you needed to be true, what you could not afford to lose. You never saw the glass, so you took the colour for the world.

You see what the glass was holding back.

The pane does not go away. But once you know it is there, you can allow for it. The resistance turns out to be information. The refusal turns out to be a question you had not heard. The same situation, read with the tint accounted for, offers moves that were invisible a moment ago.