High fit

Brightness controls whether you lean into the hopeful side of a situation or let the dark side take over. When the doctor's face relaxed with relief at hearing Sidhu Gangadhari wasn't Harvard-bound, that moment could have calcified into bitterness. Instead, Sidhu kept the dial tilted toward what was possible — the skills he was learning, the mentor who believed in him, the letter that Doug wrote. He chose to see the gas station as a foundation, not a ceiling.