During my first ever interview for a job at 19 with a British airline, one of the panel asked me: “If you were a pilot headed due north and the aircraft came over the North Pole, how would know which direction to fly in to get to your destination?” As the answer came to me, I blessed my geography teacher in school (he served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War and knew all about compasses and navigation). My solution was: “I would continue flying till the compass showed