Daniel Coyle

It's a little cue to just be like, hey, there's more here.

Shift your attention to something bigger.

So rituals end up being something I see all the time in these flourishing communities.

And I think ritual as a word has come to take on this kind of solemnity, spiritual sort of feeling.

And that's true.

That's part of what it is for sure.

But

You can also think of it as just anything that doesn't have a definite positive outcome.

Anything that's just sort of a music festival is a ritual for all the people that go to it.

Doing kind of big, you know, just hanging out and doing nothing with your friends is a ritual.

Anything that you're kind of relaxing your attention and being in that space with people.

And for me...

I mean, the one sort of ritual that I've done just, you know, lately is just like, I sort of think of it as like the daily rando thing.

Like it's, I reach out to a friend or an acquaintance.

And last week it was my old neighbor, Kyle, who I used to play football with.

And I came across, like we had written down stats from our games when we were 10 years old.

And I took a picture of it and I sent it to him and we chatted on the phone for like 10 minutes.

I hadn't talked to Kyle in 10 years.

It made my day.

I had a blast.