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Is There Something Funny About Presence?
Most people who are pushing very hard create an environment in which the mind is less productive. Presence, it sounds like a hippie-dippy term, but presence is just being able to focus on what you're doing. And if you look at the networks of our brain that are activated when we're in an acquisition mentality versus focused on something in the here and now, they're anti-correlated with one another. We should feel as though our work is making more of a difference, and we do when we're more present.