The Female Intelligence Brief 2- English

The Female Intelligence Brief is directed to women and men with female intelligence.
Female Intelligence is not gender. It is capacity.

The Oak and the Corkscrew Hazel Speak…

There was a time when she learned how to stand.

She stood among the oaks, and they taught her strength, stability, and endurance. How to hold direction when the wind rises. How to carry without bending. How to become someone others can lean on when everything begins to shake.

And it worked. Everything around her remained standing as long as she stood. This is how many systems still function. They endure, as long as someone carries what cannot sustain itself.

But one day, she noticed something. Not as a rupture or a crisis, but rather as a quiet shift—where what had once been her strength began to feel like a structure she no longer fully fit within.

That was when she saw it.

A plant that did not follow the same lines. Branches that moved in curves, as if they listened more than they directed. It seemed almost out of place, and yet something within her recognized it.

“I follow my own form,” it seemed to say. “And that is enough.”

She remained there for a moment. Not to choose or to understand, but to sense what happens when one no longer tries to stand like the oaks.

What she saw was not personal, but structural.

What appears as stability is often carried by someone holding together what cannot hold itself. What is called strength is, at times, simply a high capacity to compensate.

And in that realization, another possibility emerges. Not to stop standing. Not to stop carrying. But to stop doing so by default.

The oaks show that you can stand. The corkscrew hazel reveals something else.

How to move without leaving yourself. How direction is not always linear. How what appears indistinct may, in fact, be more precise than what seems clear.

You have been straight enough, strong enough, and enduring enough. The question is no longer whether you can carry, but what becomes possible when you no longer carry what is not yours.

Anna Eliasson Lundquist

CEO, Kvinnokompetensen Rekr & Led utv AB
Stockholm, 15 april 2026

 
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