Papa

Without naming the book, tell me a line that readers of it will instantly recognize.

The higher you climb, especially in the corporate world, the more you’ll find that the biggest threat to most of your peers will not be your intellect or even your ambition. It’s your sense of wonder and pluri-potentiality. Wonder on its own suggests you haven’t been defeated. That despite everything, the rigid systems, exhausting culture, performative norms, you’re still open. Still curious. You still care. It unsettles people because if you still care, if you still ask questions or participate eagerly, still see beauty in things, you still want to create, then you haven’t surrendered. Life has not beaten you into submission. And in places where performance is everything, that spirit is both admirable and unsettling. Ambition is too legible. It can be ranked, which means it can be competed with or even contained. But pluri-potentiality? It’s the unnameable sense that you could be doing ten other things brilliantly, but you chose to bring depth here. It is the fact of being driven not just by performative success, but by a sort of genuine desire for creativity and meaning. It’s a kind of spiritual wealth. A felt presence, an energy. Good thing is, no one can take that away from you.

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