Daniel Coyle

There's all kinds of horror stories of what happened when you have a group of roughneck minors in a small space with no certainty of rescue at all, like probably not going to be rescued.

And then they finally contact him and they drop a phone down the hole and say, how are you guys doing?

And they say, we're doing great.

But our first question is what happened to the bus driver who was near us when the cave-in happened?

First thing they do is ask about somebody else.

They didn't say, oh my God, when are you going to come and get us?

We're dying down here.

They said, what about that other guy?

And then they go on.

The conversation was very normal.

And then they sang a song together.

They sang the Chilean anthem together.

And what became clear is that they had created in atmosphere that were very close to hellish,

an extraordinary community.

And then where it gets more interesting, and I think where it connects back to our other conversation, is that the moments in which that community was created weren't moments of action and decision and information.

It wasn't moments of a leader taking charge and saying, here's what we need to do.

It was moments where they all stopped, where they circled up and they said, who are we?

They didn't have answers.

They explored questions.

Who do we want to be?