Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Anatole France wrote, “All changes… have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

more we are able to be ourselves, the more we are able to be present. And that makes us convincing.

passion, confidence, and comfortable enthusiasm.

Presence is confidence without arrogance.

—Rohan, Australia

As Dave Grohl once said, “That’s one of the great things about music: you can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”

“To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, ‘I am listening to this music,’ you are not listening.”

“All changes… have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

The pursuit of a lasting “crystalline awareness” requires us to have the means and the freedom to decide exactly how we spend our time, our energy—our lives

Now I see how a talk can work like a song—how people personalize it, connect with it, feel validated knowing that someone else has felt as they feel. As

“All changes… have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”