The two islands were twins, right down to the motivational spark, and yet Curaçao ignited while Aruba did not. Why? Part of the answer is that Curaçao, like other talent hotbeds, has found a way to do a very important and tricky thing: to keep the motivational fire lit. It's one thing to persuade Scrooge to crack open his vault; it's another to persuade him to splurge on Christmas geese day after day, year after year. Curaçao forms, quite by accident, a natural case study on the science and practice of sustained ignition.
