Fresh out of Business School, I was recruited to work for a company that required a lot of travel. Having basically ruined my life and relationships with the idea of a corporate master of "getting ahead," I was completely adrift I hadn't settled anywhere, and my grad school girlfriend went across the country for an unpaid internship and a new life in the banking world of lightless cubicles and endless days. Though I misse...

I began to understand that I had crossed into a different and undiscovered place. What came into focus was how I thought about what just happened. After meeting Tommy, and now knowing who he was, I let myself dive into the deep end, so to speak. Tommy was the assistant to the President of the Company that I had been working so hard to close a deal that would make my job finally secure. He was, as I was to learn, somewhat...