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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
Emerson’s observation that “almost all people descend to meet.”
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
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.