Some people don’t rise.

They dive. Not because they’re drowning—because they know where the truth lives. They don’t skim the surface. They go beneath it.

Their questions ruin easy answers. They don’t fight for attention. They fight for relevance. Their presence makes everyone sit up straighter. They hold the silence one second longer because they know what’s missing hasn’t been said yet.

This isn’t a book on leadership, culture, or creativity—not the way they’ve been dressed up for culture decks and conference panels. This is on power.

The kind that doesn’t shout or beg or wear a lanyard. The kind that walks into a room and tilts the whole damn atmosphere.

You won’t find tips here. Just triggers.

The sentence you’ve heard a thousand times too many. The plan that gets polite nods but no pulse. The flaw in the pitch everyone else calls perfect.

This book names it. And you won’t be able to unsee it.

Some books change what you know. This one changes where you stand. You won’t lead the same. Sit in rooms the same. Meet silence the same. Not because you read it—because it reads you.

This doesn’t coax you toward confidence. It excavates the powers you forgot were yours.

Smith and Marcum pull your deepest instincts into the boardroom, the cubicle, the bar, the mirror. This is a tuning fork to the chest. A nervous system for the uncharted.

You won’t always like the ones with gravity. But when it matters, you’ll need them. Because gravity doesn’t push.

It pulls.

This is a book about the pull.