Getting along vs getting it right

A lot of you don't know this but when I was about 24 years old, I was very close to interviewing for a job as an engineer in airline cockpits with United Airlines and my chances were very good at getting hired and then working my way up to co-captain and evenutally captain on 727s, 37s, and eventually probably the biggest commercial airplanes on earth the 747 and 767 that are in regular use.  Despite working my way up to this opportunity, I knew much before I got that far, that flying wasn't my thing and when I decided to drop it, it was a great relief and I never looked back, never felt a morsel of regret.  I do sometimes wish that I would've quit sooner and pursued something that I really liked younger, but the experience has served me well in other endeavors in my life up to the present day.  In today's world that is so connected where borders are becoming less and less significant while at the same time there are tremendous forces at work to try to divide us, I'm reminded of a finding I learned while studying to be an airline pilot that tried to figure what type of cockpit crew was most likely to save the airplane and passengers from harm in an emergency situation.  It was a graph that compared pilot skill and crew compatibility and the finding was that of course, the best crew was one that had the most skills and competence possible along with most compatability with team members.  The interesting find was that it was better to have a crew with so-so skills and high compatability than it was to have a crew that had excellent skills but little compatability.  Even more interesting was that on a scale of 1-10 for both skills and compatability it was better to have a crew who was 5 and 5 than to have a crew that was a 10 on skills and a 4 on compatability.  In othe words, a crew that was tired and possibly did not have excellent manuevering skills but that knew each other well and worked together well was more likely to save the day.  That finding really struck me (obviously I still remember it 25 years later) and I can apply it today to what's going on at the border.,  In order to save ourselves from war, famine, and climate chage we need to first get know each other.  This is why I am against border walls and think they all need to be torn down.   I see the need for people to get to know each other.