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When discussion groups develop unspoken hierarchies

Our book club started as a way for six of us to think seriously about big ideas, but it's become clear that two people dominate every discussion and the rest of us have started just going through the motions.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual communities can unconsciously replicate power dynamics that make genuine collaborative thinking impossible, even when everyone involved values equality in theory.

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