The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
Interdependency follows independence.
Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.