Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.

Mary Catherine Bateson
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  1. An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.
  2. Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.
  3. The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]
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  5. Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31]
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