You can’t concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What’s gonna happen if it doesn’t go right? - Malcolm Gladwell

Those three things — autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward — are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether our work fulfills us.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

[Greenberg] knew that cultural legacies matter — that they are powerful and pervasive and that they persist, long after their original usefulness has passed. But he didn't assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are. He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change.