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What are the benefits of social learning? You get to learn vicariously through others’ parallel experiences, which means you learn far faster than figuring out everything yourself. You get to learn by teaching others and giving them feedback on their work. And you get to know people as holistic human beings, not just faceless avatars.

But I think my favorite part of learning in community is that you have the opportunity to be generous. You get to help other people in their journey instead of fixating only on your own.

Encountering for the first time communities in the real world founded on ideas, I began to realize that I had always felt what my friend David Perell calls “intellectual loneliness.” It’s a feeling that almost no one in your social circles shares the same passion for ideas as you. I realized I had always felt that there was no one I could share my ... See more