5 reasons (and 4 quotes)

on why it is better to collaborate

The synapse, our logo, represents that moment when two entities begin a unique relationship by sharing a spark.

It happens in the brain, between neurons.

It happens in the world between persons.

1. The relationship is the only irreplaceable and validating process we know, whether in personal or professional matters. The wider the range across which a relationship takes place, the greater its strength.”

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. (Charles Darwin)

2. Every diverse skill you gather brings a more powerful outcome and invites you to know and learn something new.

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition — that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else. (Leonard Bernstein)

3. A discussion itself, a chance to discuss, even to argue, is a chance to explain your position and to learn from others, no matter who “wins”.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter (Bertrand Russell)

4. By learning something new from another person, you gain understanding and can fight your prejudices.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. (Albert Einstein)

5. You meet people, you get to know people, and everybody is richer than before.

And now, please add your own favourite quote to this…

Merry Christmas!

the OXWAY team