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Issue #29: Heroism and Belonging
In the new heroism, the goal is to transcend individual life, with its petty pains and loves, in favor of the dazzling collective.
Jennifer Egan • The Candy House: A Novel
COVID-19: A War Broke Out In Heaven - Emerge
whatisemerging.com
Recent events have completely exposed the limits of individual agency, creating a powerful demand for squad-based forms of resiliency.
Other Internet • Squad Wealth
We didn't need heroes; we needed people to work together and show how we can make things happen when we work as one team.
James M. Kouzes • The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner)
Bravery is common. Resilience is common. But heroism has a philosophical component to it. There’s some great “Why?” that heroes bring to the table—some incredible cause or belief that goes unshaken, no matter what. And this is why, as a culture, we are so desperate for a hero today: not because things are necessarily so bad, but because we’ve lost
... See moreMark Manson • Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2 Book Series))
Recent events have completely exposed the limits of individual agency, creating a powerful demand for squad-based forms of resiliency. The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent of these social bonding agents: though we're physically distancing, emotionally we're getting closer.
otherinter.net • Other Internet
Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came to the right place and are affirmed for that choice.
Peter Block • Community: The Structure of Belonging
Belonging With Agency (SSIR)
ssir.org