Getting good at anything: It takes some friends

I remember reading an old interview with a top Starcraft ladder player (Zileas) and he said that one key part of him getting to be #1 on the ladder was being part of a group of friends who were all very good themselves and who played regularly. The social aspects make it fun and motivating in a way that would be much harder if you were to decide to just sit down and spend months or years getting good at something alone. In my case I remember people being disappointed when I would skip a match because they wouldn't be able to talk through the problems afterward.
-ADAM D'ANGELO on how he improved so fast at TopCoder via quora.com

Connected minds create the universe

"In the province of connected minds, what the network believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the network's mind there are no limits."

JOHN C. LILLY