Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently… - Stephen Covey

Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players

How you treat the one reveals how you
regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. In the words of Thoreau, “For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

humans have between what happens to us and our response to it.