If you are willing to take a leap across the boundaries of disciplines, then the questions that you ask and the answers that you get should be more insightful.
I therefore realize that if you do not have an interdisciplinary mindset and you neglect to make every effort to interact, you are just working "independently" among your "interdisciplinary" colleagues.
"For too long, investigators in different scientific and professional disciplines had worked in isolation, without the benefit of outside perspectives and approaches."