An architect takes in their latest assignment: to rescue a wealthy client’s plans gone wrong. The client has high hopes for it, and believes it has the potential to be a landmark and a part of their legacy.

The main problem is there is very little time. She has two weeks to do it. In other words, an impossible assignment.

Her common sense tells her to reject the opportunity, but she empathizes with the client. She knows how important this is to them and how much they believe in her and need her contribution. 

She knows that it will be difficult, and that there will be some finessing and negotiation required. She might even experience a stress dream or two, and definitely some strain in her current workload. 

There is a chance people already see the assignment as a failure, and she will be the final person responsible for putting her fingerprints on it—so they will think it’s her failure. The assignment will need more time, energy, and expertise. It won’t receive it if somebody doesn’t add some momentum to it—and the assignment has chosen her. She is the assignment’s last hope.

So she makes a decision against her instincts that will push her abilities to the unknown: she says yes.