An idea I can't stop thinking about... The Medici Effect In 15th century Florence, the wealthy Medici banking family began funding the arts. This funding attracted the world's best artists and thinkers to one location at one point in time. The talent density... See more

No matter how determined you are, it's hard not to be influenced

by the people around you. It's not so much that you do whatever a

city expects of you, but that you get discouraged when no one around

you cares about the same things you do.