Or has your rush to find the next golden ticket cost you the chance to experience a masterpiece already within your reach?

The [tag]video[/tag] above shows an experiment conducted by The Washington Post in an effort to see if we recognize the wonders around us. Watch as very few even stop to pause. When the musician stops, no one applauds.

Three days before his subway concert, this musician performed in Boston’s Symphony Hall to a sold out crowd with a starting ticket price of $100. This subway performance landed him a cool $32 and his biggest fan seemed to be a 3 year old boy.

The crowd isn’t phased by the violinist before them, though he is none other than Joshua Bell, a child prodigy turned internationally acclaimed virtuoso. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

I find the [tag]social media[/tag] scene rolling around in this activity more by the day. Are we building a society that is networking themselves into a massive ball of unrecognizable worth? Are we so caught up in building easy [tag]communications[/tag] and huge networks of opportunity that we don’t even notice what we already have? Are we overlooking people of great talent and contributions simply because their signal becomes tangled in our multitasking frenzies?

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