Daniel Coyle

Like if you want meaning, don't climb Mount Fuji, like go make faces at the babies that are in strollers on your street.

Like frequency will make you way more connected and fulfilled than intensity.

100%.

I mean, collisions would be the word that, you know, some social scientists would use, right?

Just go out, bounce around, like be a billiard ball and see what happens and create spaces where that happens.

You know, some of the people that are most like,

Most intentional about creating those spaces are people in business, actually.

They're quite good at it.

People at Pixar and Google's designing their lunch line so that it's not too fast.

They want people to linger, right?

And Pixar is super intentional about the space where people eat because they don't want, and they serve great food.

They don't want people going off campus.

They want the noodles in the pot.

You know, that's kind of the metaphor for it, where it's like there's a confined space and people are kind of bounce energized and bouncing off each other.

And you just don't know what's going to emerge from that.

We're terrible at predicting how much we like that, by the way.

We're always going to think it's going to stink, but the studies show we like it way more than we think we do.

I know, but we're pre-wired for it.

It's like all of the dystopian stuff that we sort of see and read and feel and the world speeding up and fragment and people being so polarized.

It's like, that is true.