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When intellectual groups become status competitions

Our book club started as friends reading philosophy together but it's turned into subtle competitions about who's most intellectually sophisticated, and I think we're all too invested in our reading personas to admit we've lost the joy of learning.

Patan
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A learning community discovers that ego investment has corrupted their shared pursuit of wisdom, creating the very barriers to understanding they sought to transcend.

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