Many years ago, Sundar Pichai was scuba diving with his family in Hawaii when the weather turned unexpectedly rough. As Pichai entered the water, waves pummeled his lanky frame. He wondered if he should return to safety.  Eventually, he kicked downward. Just a few feet below, Pichai found “the calmest place in the world,” he says, and became possessed by a meditative stillness. “I feel that in any situation, there is a layer which is super calm—in which, if you can get there, you can observe what’s going on,” he says. “And your mind’s energy is focused on what you need to do.”  This anecdote, which Pichai relays in Google’s Mountain View headquarters on a Wednesday afternoon in April, is almost too on the nose. As CEO of Google and Alphabet, Pichai runs the second most valuable company in the world and could earn $692 million himself over the next three years pending Google’s stock performance.…