Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

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It’s not that everything’s perfect and that there are no conflicts or awkwardness, that everyone always gets along or that there aren’t moments of ambivalence where dynamics seem to shift. This step is particularly useful for those who are looking to find themselves again after losing touch with what matters.

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Once you’ve met people that you feel you want to connect to, practice being brave enough to be open about that with them. If it’s a group that meets in real life, volunteer your home for a meeting or offer to help out at an event; if it’s one person, invite him or her out to partake in the interest you share. Community is something that has suffered greatly since technology has enabled us to be increasingly independent from one another.For several years, I decided that there was something wrong with me, which was why they didn’t seem to truly accept me.

Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

It’s a great way to get your thoughts and your worries out of your head so you can work through them. She says it doesn't matter if you're not close in age or share a lot of things in common but you need to have relationships where you can be in each other's lives and do things like drop by unannounced. And as Alex served his job and community needs, he created a hub for other geeky creative types, and doing so helped his city become more vibrant in serving the needs of similar entrepreneurs.Onlyness is like an individual, then, in that it is born of you and also that it unites you meaningfully with others; it is the connected you. And even though I am a Christian, I felt like this book was beating you over the head with how Jesus is our example of community, how much God loves you, etc. But science confirms that consistent, meaningful connection with others has a powerful impact on our well-being. And because of that, so many of us are just fumbling around, hoping one day we’ll stumble into the friendships of our dreams because we want them, because we deserve them.

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It’s not that there was anything wrong with my family or my school or the few friends I had, or my neighborhood—not at all. Something where my particular gifts were treasured, and my particular sort of oddness was accepted and cherished; and where I felt safe enough to cherish and embrace the odd gifts of those around me.Perhaps you feel a little lost because you have yet to identify something that really fills you with joy and passion. You could choose to list out things such as your likes/dislikes, values, goals, things that are important to you, etc. So it can be worth asking those who are close to you and who you trust what they think of when they think of you. It was done in a way that it felt like she was trying to convert me and in doing so, pushed me that much further away from the relatively decent framework of her book. But as jobs in cities became plentiful, people began moving to major metropolises and away from family and friends.

Find Your People by Jennie Allen: 9780593193402

So you should end up with a strong sense of identity, know your place in the world, be able to imagine a different future, and feel content with your life in general. If this is the case, the answer is to try out new things and expose yourself to different types of experiences. I would recommend it to anyone because I believe that the strength of this book is the practicality and anyone could benefit from it. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I heard from people that some of the ideas seemed repetitive, which I could see, but in a way I needed those themes repeated to help me have courage in my approach to finding my people. I did enjoy it and it had some great ideas on 'how to find your people' your village, the ones you know you can count on. Soon, he found a few who had a similar outward profile — tattoos, ironic T-shirts, checkered shirts. For an extrovert like herself, the inability to do this is hard to imagine and can seem like a personal choice.