Pastor Joe. This is an excellent piece. After all, the day we stop learning is the day we start dying.
About the collective win thingy you pointed out, it is important that we're not the only ones winning in our cycle of friends. It just makes too much sense to see that as we grow, the people around us grow too. And this is why I try as much as I can to offer help in the best of my capacity to people who ask for my help. It's also one of the reasons I do not take some of my friends for granted, I've learned so much from them.