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How to address power dynamics in intellectual groups

Our book club started because we wanted to engage with big ideas together but it's become a place where certain people dominate every discussion and the rest of us have learned to just nod along and I'm wondering if anyone else notices we're not actually thinking together anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The group's noble intention to think collectively has been hijacked by individual performance, leaving genuine inquiry behind.

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