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Gary Weber is an interesting guy.
Over 15 years ago he was the CEO of a multi-million dollar company, with a thousand or so employees under his leadership.
Everything was going normally, except on one morning when something very strange happened to Gary.
He lost his mind.
Gary was doing his morning Yoga ritual and went up into a pose that he had done thousands of times. He was practicing a simple self-inquiry meditation, and when he came down, his mind was gone.
When I say lost his mind, I don’t mean he lost control (he would say he never had it). What I mean is that he lost all self-referential thoughts; the never-ending stream of noise that goes through ours heads every single day.
