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Host a bring-your-own-reason-to-celebrate party. Each guest brings something specific in their life to celebrate
Contribute your skills to an existing effort – make it possible. Build the website, raise the funds, recruit the talent, plan the events. As Bill McKibben puts it, “Faced with the kind of crises that we face, the most important thing that an individual can do is to not always be an individual.” Move from I to we .
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COMMIT TO A GATHERING ABOUT SOMETHING
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Gathering well is the deeply generous act of noticing a real need in a community and creating just the right container to help meet it.
“Everyone wants to attend parties, but no one wants to throw them. We just expect them to appear when we need them, like fire trucks. My point is that we are obligated to create the social world we want. Intimacy, togetherness—the opposite of the crushing loneliness so many people seem to feel—are what parties alchemize.” As someone who tends to ho
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Wrote up some thoughts on structures and tactics for gathering people together in low-stress, high-payoff ways.
Learned some of these lessons the hard way.
Picked up others by being part of beautifully designed events with thoughtful hosts.
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