“Something smells…”
Off. Like smoke. Fishy. Old. Musty.
When there is a literal bad smell, we don’t stop until we’ve hunted down the culprit and gotten rid of it.
Yet why is it that figurative smells—in our friendships, relationships, and workplaces—are ignored?
A smell is just a signal that something is wrong. The hard graft is figuring out and dealing with the source.