A leadership session with Ki on why safety sits at the base of embodied leadership rather than somewhere further up the list. The line Ki keeps returning to: people do not follow the smartest person in the room, they follow the most regulated one. The session names a paradox worth sitting with — we are physically safer than humans have ever been, yet feel less safe than ever, because threat has moved from the physiological to the psychological. Tigers became emails, and we absorb thousands of small alarms a day. Ki walks through the three nervous-system states polyvagal theory describes, noting that high performers often live in the sympathetic one and mistake it for drive. It closes practically: safety starts inside you rather than somewhere you go to get it, and it deepens in real contact with other people.
