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The Significance of Building a Community around a Shared Goal

Name: The Significance of Building a Community around a Shared Goal
Uploaded: 2024-10-07T21:58:51+00:00
Duration: 23 s
Channel: Stacey Lauren
Description: A short spoken segment (YouTube video transcript) by Stacey Lauren arguing that communities formed around a specific shared activity (e.g., a running…

7 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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A short spoken segment (YouTube video transcript) by Stacey Lauren arguing that communities formed around a specific shared activity (e.g., a running group) provide different and more practical support than general friends or family, because members actively participate in the goal together. The example contrasts encouragement from loved ones with the hands-on, co-participatory support of a running group.

And it's different than your friends and family, it's different than your like minded friends, it's different than your normal support network. Because a lot of times, like imagine if you want to run a marathon and you have like encouraging and supportive friends, they're not going to help you run the marathon, but if you join a running group, like, they're going to help you run, right? Because they're going to be running with you. Or they know like when you're like, oh my gosh, I'm tired, I don't want to run this 10 miles today.