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Tribe — Sebastian Junger
A human tribe can be viewed as a status game that all its members are playing, its rules being recorded in its stories. Every human group that has a shared purpose is held together by such stories.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
As we saw earlier, it takes only two things to turn a group of people into a tribe: • A shared interest • A way to communicate The communication can be one of four kinds: • Leader to tribe • Tribe to leader • Tribe member to tribe member • Tribe member to outsider So a leader can help increase the effectiveness of the tribe and its members by • tra
... See moreSeth Godin • Tribes: We need you to lead us
Human beings are fundamentally social animals. Behavioral economics and psychological research have taught us that we fundamentally crave a sense of connectedness, belonging, mission, and meaning, particularly when performing our work.
Jeffrey Bussgang • When Community Becomes Your Competitive Advantage
Junger reflected, “humans don’t mind hardship, in fact, they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary.”11 Junger argues that “modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Each of us, to our core, is drawn to being part of something larger than ourselves, something with purpose, something we can believe in.