Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook.
He had a vision while attending Harvard to connect the students. He invited 5 friends to his dorm to talk about this business idea, only 2 showed up that night, and the original and now prehistoric idea of Facebook was born.
Mark did the commencement speech at Harvard this year, and he is still trying to connect the world.
He has grand visions of a global community which I think is fascinating and important.
I will get to that in a second, but first, I digress.
I’ve been reading Bruce Liptons book The Biology of Belief. He has devoted his professional life to study single cells in order to better understand them knowing that the knowledge would be transferable to the communities of cells that make up the human body.
We have approximately 50 trillion cells in our body.
Study the micro to gain insight into the macro. I think it’s brilliant, it’s important, and it’s necessary to gain deep understanding of anything.
The book is teaching me more about individual cells than I ever knew, it’s a bit scientific and hard for me to read but I’ve been thinking about the process.
Generally and simply speaking, the cells belong to families, which belong to communities which work together and make all of the different aspects of the human body, liver, heart, lungs, skin, teeth… you get the picture.
Then those communities join together and make the human body.
What can we learn from this?
We need to live in communities and be connected to other communities in order to thrive.
Mark Zuckerberg is on to something by connecting us.
The more we connect the more miracles we can pull off.
An isolated single cell can live on its own…but 50 trillion cells working together can be an ordinary miracle.
The same is true for humans.
We need community, and we need to work together.
The first step is to get connected.