“Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than animal movement. It represents collective travel with long-deferred rewards. It suggests pre-meditation and epic willfulness, codified as inherited instinct. They are prolonged movements that carry animals outside familiar habitats; they tend to be linear, not zigzaggy; they involve special behaviors of preparation (such as overfeeding) and arrival; they demand special allocations of energy. And one more: Migrating animals maintain a fervent attentiveness to the greater mission, which keeps them undistracted by temptations and undeterred by challenges that would turn other animals aside.” – National Geographic – November 2010
Sounds like a startup.
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Why do you want to succeed? at business? Is it necessary and worthy? Why does animal migration appear interesting? The crowd (of animals) is a life form having its own instincts. You also are a crowd, with more bacterial cells than human cells inside you. The connected twitter crowds, cell-phone connected crowds, facebook communities – are all monsters with each monster hosting several bacteria (humans) inside it. The collective intelligence of twitter crowds is not exactly multiplied by the size of the crowd, but its physical capabilities are, as demonstrated in recent social movements. Migrating animals don’t have this problem. Why?