I was just reading a book by the noted American pro basketball coach and "Zen master" Phil Jackson. In it, he chronicles how his own intensive spiritual studies led to storied success for his championship pro basketball teams. Although his approach was mostly a synthesis of Zen Buddhism and Native American ideas, I was continually reminded of 12-Step principles as I read the book.
On the face of it, coaching a pro basketball team to a championship and coming up with a successful program for alcoholism recovery wouldn’t seem to have much in common, but underneath, the similarities abound. Only goes to support the idea that certain aspects of the human experience are transcendent and universal.