There is an inexhaustible reservoir of lifelong lessons a person can imbibe by just being aware, and by asking the eternal questions of why, when, what, who and where, as often as possible. This is the framework I adopted to learn everything about my father’s factory. My interaction with the workers exposed me to the importance of ethics, values and responsibility and also how it was critical to be able to live up to the trust that people so often blindly placed in us.