Celebrate your differences

The Dalai Lama often says that focusing too much on what makes us different divides us, and focusing on what we share as humans unites us. While I don't disagree, I think this view is a bit simplistic. Differences don't have to divide us. We can also use differences to bring us closer together. Take a soccer team for example. The defenders have different skills than the attacking players, and the midfielders have different skills yet again. The coach probably thinks a lot about how to utilize th