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When intellectual groups become echo chambers

Our book club started because we wanted to have real conversations about ideas that matter, but over the past year it's devolved into everyone just restating their existing positions louder and louder. We're all too invested in being right to actually learn from each other, and I can feel the curiosity that brought us together slowly dying.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The very desire to engage with big ideas that brought your group together has been corrupted by the need to perform certainty rather than explore uncertainty.

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