The answer is: POWER

Someone interestingly posted the above "question" on Linkedin Answers, challenging people to come up with a creative question that would lead to that answer.

My question is:

What is the one thing that's key to the great life and that everybody is looking for, consciously or subconsciously, while being driven, deceived or manipulated to look for it in the wrong places or to believe they will never get it, by people who already have it?

Power, indeed, is the very currency of the elite.

The secret of power, in fact, is to keep power secret.

The most infinite and fungible source of power is knowledge (the other two sources being brute force and money or capital).

To gain knowledge, especially the secret kind, you need to either read a lot of books (and totally master their content -- for example, if you can teach the content of a book, you probably master it) or connect with a lot of smart people to learn from.

Take Roger Federer, for instance. He dominates the game of tennis like mad. Yet, he doesn't stop there. He forges friendships with champions in other sports too, in order to access secrets of the best in the world (like Tiger Woods).