The hard part of belonging begins after you’ve found your people View our Twitter (X) feedView our Youtube channelView our Instagram feedView our Substack feedView our Spotify feed The hard part of belonging begins after you’ve found your people Luke Burgis explains how to keep a solid sense of self inside a community instead of dissolving into a pseudo self that changes with every crowd. The hard part of belonging begins after you’ve found your people Luke Burgis is a veteran entrepreneur and author. He’s the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship in Washington, DC, and the founder of Fourth Wall Ventures, an incubator[…] The hard part of belonging begins after you’ve found your people Luke Burgis is a veteran entrepreneur and author.
A philosophy that says God is everything that could ever exist What separates the living from the inert has little to do with its material The trick that offloads intrusive thoughts so your brain can actually work Sean Carroll: The past, present, and future exist simultaneously The real reason you’re always thinking about what other people think The most important question to ask yourself about your life’s purpose Rome’s triumph was the ancient world’s most effective piece of propaganda The idea so strange Einstein thought it broke quantum physics Drawing on psychiatrist Murray Bowen’s family systems theory, Henri Tajfel’s minimal group experiments, and Gustave Le Bon’s study of crowds, Luke Burgis separates the “solid self” from the “pseudo self” that reshapes itself for every room, and how to preserve your truest essence. **Solid Self vs. Pseudo Self: How to Belong Without Losing Yourself** I’m Luke Burgis. I’m the founder and director of the Cluny Institute and the author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life and The One in the 99: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion.
Today on Big Think, we’re going to be looking at the two levels of the self, the solid self and the pseudo self. The three temptations of the screen and then courage and specifically the four forms of courage that allow us to live well in the modern world. **Chapter 1: Distinguishing a solid self and a pseudo self** So it seems like every year 10 books get written on how to find your tribe. Um, so it seems to be something that, you know, people want to understand how to do, how to find your people, how to find people that you can be comfortable with.
But it seems to me that we live in a world where finding tribes is easier than it’s ever been, especially with the internet. We’re immersed in tribes all of the time. And the big question is, well, what do you do once you’ve actually found your tribe?
How do you exist within the tribe in a healthy way so that you don’t lose yourself within it? And that to me is the most important question of our time in an age of social contagion where we’re finding our tribes uh sometimes we’re finding tribes on a daily basis, right? Different tribes to to validate what we think and what we feel.
We pick and choose tribes uh as we as we need them. And the far more important skill, I think, is not just how to leave a tribe. That is and can very much be an important skill.
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