Why should we often leave the house

Explorer Ben Saunders in his speech at the TED talks about his travels and how all this affected his personal growth.

"We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to enjoy life. This is the meaning of life, and that is why it is given to us. "
George Leigh Mallory

Now, anyone who has access to the Internet may, within a few minutes to answer almost any question and see almost any place on earth, not rising from his chair. But... immersed in the virtual world, and for a minute without stopping the race for money and things, we forget that our life was given to us not to do so.

And that is really true revelation and brilliant ideas rarely come in a comfortable chair at the computer or watching TV. We need often to tear his eyes from the monitor and look around.

No wonder many successful people organize themselves something like a hard reset before you travel on survival, addicted ultramarathon, or just go to the mountains, challenging nature and its opportunities.