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How groups lose their original purpose to social performance

Our book club started as five women wanting deeper conversations but it's turned into a social performance where we all compete to sound the most insightful. None of us are getting what we originally wanted but we're all too invested in our images to acknowledge it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A collective has drifted from authentic connection into ego protection, and members are individually aware but collectively stuck.

Ideas that help explain it
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