Success Quote by Lance Secretan

Secretan is smuggling a spiritual argument into business language, and he does it with a soft, disarming qualifier: "sometimes". That one word keeps the claim from sounding anti-science while still carving out territory where spreadsheets and brain scans can’t follow. The move is familiar to modern corporate humanism: respect the lab coat, then pivot to the soul.

The key phrase is "depths of our essence" - a deliberately foggy idea that feels profound because it resists measurement. "Essence" isn’t a finding; it’s a permission slip. It suggests there is a core self more real than behavior, productivity, or even personality - and it places science on the outside looking in. For a businessman-turned-leadership-guru, that’s not an abstract metaphysical point; it’s a management philosophy. If science can’t fully "fathom" people, then leaders shouldn’t pretend they can optimize them like machinery.

The second half tightens the rhetorical loop: "our inspiration comes from that essence". Once you accept the premise that essence exists beyond analysis, inspiration becomes proof of it. Creativity, purpose, and moral conviction get framed as evidence of an inner depth that metrics can’t capture. The subtext is a quiet rebellion against late-capitalist reductionism: you are not your KPIs, your psych profile, your burnout index.

Contextually, it’s aimed at professionals exhausted by rationalized workplaces. Secretan offers a more flattering anthropology - and, not incidentally, a new basis for authority: leaders who can speak to "essence" get to define meaning where science supposedly can’t.