Last night I went to a sort of mini TED-talk-like presentation that kicked off the Cambridge Science Festival, and the last speaker of the night was Harvard University sociologist, and 2010 TED talk presenter, Nicholas Christakis. He's studying human systems and how the connections between the nodes (relationships between people) affect the individuals and the system as a wh***. And, he has discovered evidence that the secret to a healthy, resilient system is having both types of individuals:
- people who are well connected and have tight friendships with others who share their lifestyles
- people who are less connected, and who bring in the diversity of new ideas and lifestyles to the system
Check out his much-longer-than-a-TED-talk talk, at
Fora.tv, if you're interested. (It starts to get really interesting about 1/3 of the way through, once he starts talking about happiness clusters...)
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