The Discipline of Stillness: Leading Without Losing Yourself with Scott Hollrah
Scott Hollrah spent ten years building a tech company and learned that leadership swings between gripping everything yourself and checking out entirely. The healthy middle isn't a place you arrive, it's something you keep having to find.
▶ Watch the full episode with Scott Hollrah for deeper context on how to approach these questionsWhere Are You Gripping
Picture a line from 1 (you grip everything yourself) to 10 (you've quietly checked out), with the healthy middle around 5 where you hand things off but stay clear on what matters. Rate yourself in each area below, then notice: where are you furthest from the middle?
The Thing You Won't Hand Off
Name one specific task, decision, or area you keep doing yourself even though it's eating you. What is it, and what's the real reason you haven't let someone else carry it?
The 70 Percent Test
Scott's unlock: if someone could do it even 70 percent as well as you, handing it off frees you for what only you can do. Who in your life could do the thing from prompt 02 at 70 percent today, and what would you do with the time it gives back?
What You're Afraid Would Happen
Scott kept avoiding a hard call for years because he was afraid the person might leave, and afraid of what that would do to him. Whatever you've been kicking down the road, what's the fear underneath the delay, said as plainly as you'd say it to a friend?
Your Quiet Hour
Scott got his clarity by going somewhere quiet to stop talking and just listen. When this week will you take real, uninterrupted stillness, even one hour, to sit with the thing you've been outrunning, and where will you go to do it?