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Community Can Set Ye Free
I’ll keep this quick and easy: professional example, societal example, personal example. Let’s dance.
The Professional Example
Some high-up lady at SoulCycle has moved over to WeWork. Gotta love it when people hop between the hot startups, right? Interesting how she frames up SoulCycle here:
One of the key values at SoulCycle is non-competitiveness. Cyclers don’t compete with each other. Rather they share the burden of the exercise together, pressing down on their peddles and bopping on their handlebars in unison, together powering their collective self-esteem and dazzling abs. But Rice says, what really kept people coming back again and again was a sense of belonging that bordered on commitment, if not obligation. It was this sense, she explains, that “If I don’t show up, somebody will be disappointed. If I don’t show up, the energy of this community will be disrupted. What I am…
