Of course the paradox to that is the fact that even though he had quite different attention placed on him in these two domains, he excelled at the highest level

Of course the paradox to that is the fact that even though he had quite different attention placed on him in these two domains, he excelled at the highest level at both. Does that bring into question just how big an impact that experience really has? I'm a coordinator at a K-12 school and I actually think about this quite a bit, and I'm not really sure I've made much progress. I've had the privileges of being an administrator in schools in different continents, serving vastly different populations, organized very differently, etc. And it has always shocked me how seriously we take some decisions, or how many hills staff is willing to die on for a sincere belief that deciding something one way or another is crucial to our work, yet knowing in the back of my mind another place where the approach was wholly different and yet the outcomes looked much the same.