Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters

Chapter 11. Creating Alignment—The Environment Always Wins

	Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
	--Helen Keller

The 1967 riots left metropolitan Detroit, like many urban American cities, sharply divided along racial lines. Watching the violence on TV in the comfort of her suburban home, a young white homemaker became so outraged she abandoned her middle-class white neighborhood and moved with her husband and her five kids to the demographically black downtown shortly after the riots ended. Her sudden change of lifestyle was unwelcome in her family. Eleanor ...