Periagoge
Scenario

When friend groups become too formal and lose their casual joy

Our book club used to be an excuse to drink wine and gossip and occasionally talk about books, but somewhere along the way we started taking ourselves really seriously and now we have structured discussions and reading schedules and I think we've forgotten we're supposed to be having fun.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your shared activity has become a performance of what you think it should be rather than what you actually enjoy.

Your guide for this
Nas
Nas works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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Peri

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