The Field

There is a question underneath every other question. Before the strategy, before the discipline, before the building of anything worth building, there is the bare fact that you are here — that something it is like to be is happening right now, behind your eyes, reading these words. You are not merely processing them. You are experiencing them. There is a felt quality to this moment: the light in the room, the weight of your body, the quiet hum of being someone. We almost never stop to find this strange. But it is the strangest thing in the universe. I want to walk into that strangeness with you carefully. This is the deepest book in the wis…