This makes me think of the Tribal Leadership book and talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_on_tribal_leadership/transcript?language=en https://www.ted.co

This makes me think of the Tribal Leadership book and talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_on_tribal_leadership/transcript?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_on_tribal_leadership/t... ). Their model has 5 stages. Stage 1 is 'life sucks' and stage 2 is 'my life sucks'. What you describe fits between those stages. Their ideas about stages beyond that are pretty interesting.