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Because the independent-minded find it uncomfortable to be surrounded by conventional-minded people, they tend to self-segregate once they have a chance to.
bad time • How to Think for Yourself
It is a strange thing: we acknowledge the generally social nature of our species, but resist acknowledging the specifically social nature of our intelligence.
Substack • Graph Minds
I saw that the best communities are made up of individuals who might be otherwise dissimilar but who have shared interests, values, and abilities. It’s a group of people who would likely never hang out with each other in any other situational context, and it often encompasses virtually every identity, including, yes, politics.
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
Communities : the human race demands them, needs them. Belonging is fundamental.
Douglas Atkin • Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more.
People at some level have this intrinsic desire to be understood and belong and feel like they belong with the people around them.
Mark Zuckerberg • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Mark Zuckerberg on Long-Term Strategy, Business and Parenting Principles, Personal Energy Management, Building the Metaverse, Seeking Awe, the Role of Religion, Solving Deep Technical Challenges (e.g., AR), and More (#582)
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery, and omitting all compliment and com
... See moreAngelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
People are social animals, but we have a fatal flaw: we feel more affinity for those who are most like us.
Rutger Bregman • Humankind: A Hopeful History
Individuals in group settings exhibit behaviors that no one could predict by studying single minds. No one has ever been bashful or extroverted while sitting alone in their room, no one can be a social climber or a man of the people without reference to society, and these characteristics exist because groups are not just simple aggregations of indi... See more