One of my favorite shows growing up was The League.
It's a group of dudes in their late 30s who play fantasy football.
One of them gets divorced, like 30 years do 50 percent of the time apparently. He's talking to his buddy about it, and he says:
"Being married to Meegan is like being at the beach, okay? You put up with all of this shit that's completely unacceptable in any other situation, except that, "hey, we're at the beach!" You know, it's like you're shivering in your shorts in fifty-degree weather, but, "hey, we're at the beach." The truth is, some beaches suck. Some beaches are bad. And I know you can't really see this because you're still living at the beach, but I left. I can't go back to the beach, man. I'm done."
The beach: cold, sand up your ass, crowded... yet completely appropriate to wear no clothes and nap all day.
This is space as curriculum. People rise to where they are, fall to where they are. Rich people pay more to be around other rich people. Concrete jungles produce people who stay in concrete jungles.
So how do you make a space that hits on every dimension to maximize human potential?
That's hard. Working on it.