How are life's lessons learned over a cup of coffee?

That's a cool idea, and I totally agree I have learned so much over a cup of coffee. I think there are a few reasons for this. To begin with having a coffee with someone these days is actually quite intimate, whether it be with a friend, a lover, a professional associate. The time that is taken aside to have a coffee, even on your own, is a magical thing. That time, when you boil it down, is reserved for two things, thought and enjoyment and what two things could be more conducive to learning? The intimacy and the environment which allows for cognitive construction lends itself to many strange and wonderful epiphanies. It's also interesting to note that the coffee break as we know it was actually devised as a marketing ploy or rather marketing convinced people to call their breaks a coffee break. I think this is probably the biggest reason for coffees seemingly magical force for learning, the break part, that time is reserved for whatever you will it to be and the fact that coffee makes the mind temporarily more alert during this exclusive time can't hurt.