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5. Best Overall does not mean Best At Everything

In car magazines, they often run comparisons among 4-6 different models of a similar class, reviewed by 4 or so staff writers.

What anyone paying attention will notice fairly quickly is that the #1 overall winner is rarely any one writer's first choice. Usually it's their #2 or even #3 choice. Why? Because each writer's #1 choice is usually something with very strong qualities in one area, but much weaker in others. If those strengths and weaknesses match a writer's preferences, then he will put it on top. But that doesn't make it likely to win the overall. It can be the best at some things, but that usually is not enough to make it the best overall.

What makes America great is our cultural diversity. Our ability to accept different ways, different styles, different approaches, and add them into the mix. The more we embrace it, the better we become. This is called progress.

America, pretty much by definition, is about progress. When we're not afraid to look externally, to see that there may be better ways, that's how we can keep getting better.