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When social groups prioritize performance over authentic engagement

Our book club used to have these animated discussions where we'd go off on tangents and laugh until our stomachs hurt, but now everyone's so focused on having intelligent insights that meetings feel like graduate seminars and nobody seems to be having actual fun.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group has shifted from genuine enjoyment to intellectual posturing without realizing they've lost what originally drew them together.

Worth thinking about

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