Margaret Mead isn't simply celebrating diversity—she's identifying a practical problem that societies chronically fail to solve. Finding a "fitting place" for human gifts requires deliberate architecture, not passive tolerance; it demands that institutions actually bend to accommodate what people *do well*, rather than asking people to contort themselves into predetermined slots. When a school insists a kinesthetic learner sit still for hours, or a business wastes an employee's gift for mediation by keeping her at a desk, we're not just being unkind—we're impoverishing the culture itself, like a composer who refuses to use an instrument simply because it's uncommon. The richer culture emerges only when we do the harder work of restructuring.