The kind of presence I’m talking about comes through incremental change. You don’t need to embark on a long pilgrimage, experience a spiritual epiphany, or work on a complete inner transformation. There’s nothing wrong with these things. But they’re daunting; they’re “big.” To a lot of us, they’re elusive, abstract, idealistic. Instead, let’s focus on moments—achieving a state of psychological presence that lasts just long enough to get us through our most challenging, high-stakes, a-lot-is-on-the-line situations, such as job interviews, difficult conversations, idea pitches, asking for help,
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