The importance of community on ideas

We know there are emotional, spiritual, and physical benefits to being in community, but we don't always think about how ideas benefit from our network of friends. In this TED talk, Steven Johnson tells some fascinating stories about how discoveries are made (spoiler alert: they aren't in isolation) and how a "liquid network" can keep us all learning.

People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.

If you work in a corporate world, this should inspire you to advocate for a little more social time and a little less "looking through a microscope" time.

I'll never look at GPS quite the same!