Daniel Coyle
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for some things.
In fact, it's best to explore your way into those yellow door spaces and find out what happens and learn from that and kind of be in relationship with that journey.
I don't think there is any difference.
I think community can be formed.
I think good families are communities.
Good marriages are sorts of communities, I think.
I think that word can be used very loosely.
And when we break it down to the original Latin, community basically means serving others, right?
It means you're in a relationship where you are serving others, and that can take any form.
And I think the sense of what we're hungry for
is that being part of something bigger than ourselves.
And that can be a marriage, that can be a neighborhood, that can be a team at work, that can be a county, any size.
But that idea of being in connection with something alive that's bigger than you, that means something and you're headed in some direction together.
We're terrible, it's true, right?
It's right there.
And it is fascinating because I think one of the things that this has revealed is that we're terrible at predicting what will make us happy.
Like there's a set of brilliant experiments that were done on a Chicago subway train, where they took two groups of people.
One of them, they said, keep to yourself today on the train, just prepare for the day, don't talk to anybody.
The other group was asked, hey, your job today is to get to know your neighbor and your community.
Hopefully ask them some questions and let us know how it goes.