Why Coffee Shops May Be The Best Place For Your Breakthough!

Don't you love when a story organizes a bunch of random ideas and makes you say, "YES! Exactly!"? Steve Johnson's TED talk does that for me.  In these 17 minutes I learned at least three things:

1. Why Eureka! moments shouldn't be part of our expectations.

2. How collaboration is best done with coffee and not beer.

3. Why most breakthroughs happen when we use the "parts around us."

Watch for yourself and if you skip ahead, be sure to catch the end with the story about how GPS came into being.

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.

See you at Starbucks!