“Your record won’t fly the airplane when it starts to fail,” I said.

“Neither will your pride, and neither will mine.

When it all goes wrong at once — and one day, for one of you, it will — the only things that will save the people behind you are your ability to see the situation exactly as it is, and your willingness to trust the person in the seat beside you.

That’s the whole job.

Everything else is decoration.”