But eventually, we have to leave the safe bubble of family life, take what we learned as children and apply it to the real adult world.
Presidents have been known to say that they feel stifled governing from the environs of the Rose Garden, meaning that they believe they have to get out from the bubble that is life in the White House if they want to maintain a feel for America and Americans.
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Obama also discussed the "life in the bubble, " musing over how Secret Service agents would not let him walk 750 yards from Air Force One to the Costa Mesa fairgrounds, where some of the day's activities were to take place.
Popular with baby boomers, this type of authentic, real life experience is a backlash against the bubble-like environment of all-inclusive resorts, theme parks, gaudy tourist attractions and cruises, according to the University of Illinois.
Decades from now there will be another bubble, and the accounting scandals will come back to life.
Last week, the gurus decided the bubble had burst, at least when it comes to China Life Insurance.
Just as every talent has a flip side, one downside of such life-enhancing filtering is what Eli Pariser dubbed a filter bubble in which we narrow our interests and thus sometimes miss the serendipitous connections that can pull unexpected insights and friendships into our lives.
After splitting off from Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) in 1999, Agilent's businesses in electronics and life sciences measurement equipment, plus semiconductors, bulked up at the tail end of the tech bubble, then crashed when the manufacturers that were the mainstay of the measurement gear business cancelled orders pell-mell.
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