Perfection when it counts. This is why you should always do the best you can, not the least you can get away with. In this case, this person saved not only his own life and that of his instructor (besides the plane, but that’s less important here).
In other cases, it will be something totally different, but there’s no greater joy than excelling at something and surpassing yourself, your own expectations. It’s not about you. It’s goes way beyond that.
Yesterday evening, I watched a film about a math student who figured out what an alien lifeform was communicating, by using the universal language of math. It doesn’t get any better than that.
It’s also about the synergy. Perhaps it’s particularly about the synergy.