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Originally Posted by Sly
People often underestimate the power of having friends. Friends share information. Strangers don't. Information is worth every penny you would spend attending a show.
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Agreed.
Ability to share information is the thing that made us, humans, able to rule this planet and be above of all animals. Sharing information allows you to learn new things from others experience.
Take for an example education of mathematics today: to learn how
Fourier transformations works, you need just to buy a book about mathematical analysis, read about the topic and sooner or later you will gain the knowledge you needed.
You can learn such a advanced thing in short period of time, because somebody shared information via book. Try to learn such a thing by doing own research - imagine, how much time it would take.
In developed countries, today most of 15yo kids know how to use a Pythagorean theorem. Hundreds years ago such a knowledge was reserved only for mathematicians.
It's all thanks to sharing information. You don't have to do today your own research, because people did this in the past and today you can get their knowledge through books - one of the most popular way to share information.
Sharing information is not just only learning from the others experience. It's also a way to make things better and more effectively. This time, take for an example a bees. Everyday, hundreds of bees are leaving their beehives to find flowers, fruits, etc. For one bee, such a searching would take lot of time. But hundreds of bees are improving search hundred times. When a bee found a source of food, it is returning to beehive and sharing information (as a curiosity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_dance).
Sharing information is allowing them to produce the honey in very effective way.
Also, as Sly said:
Friends share information. Strangers don't.
A bee which found the source of food is returning with the information to it's own beehive - not to other bees outside it own beehive.
Also, having friends have another important benefit: you can know people which can do things that you cannot
Remind the example about hundreds years of experiences which are written to books.
People can learn new things... but they cannot learn everything - simply life is just too short to learn thousands years of documented human experience.
Let's say, you want to build a house. You know how to assemble bricks together, but you don't know how to make electricity installation, sewerage system and other important things.
If you don't know people with such a knowledge, your dream about building the house will never become a reality.
Having friends, having connections allows you to do things that you cannot do alone.
Attending a show allows to gain new connections, met new friends. Friends, which can share information with you and help you with your business.
If you have such a opportunity to attend a show - use it.