Find Your Communities
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The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Paul Bloom
Connection, human interaction, and belonging is important to us as individuals. Social scientists, biologists, and many bloggers research and write about belonging, community, and social structure because it is crucial for social well-being and a strong civil society. Yet very few help us find or create the mutually supportive structures that make life fulfilling and enjoyable.
We need strong bonds and robust communities to satisfy the demand for belonging and connection. Impactrics wants to help you find thoughtful engagement with others to develop your connections and belonging, to make you happier and more fulfilled.
If you are over-committed or under-committed, in a career transition or looking for something more, have a new interest or want to help others, are on your own or are about to retire, or otherwise interested in doing things with other people in a mutually supportive environment, keep reading!
The Path to Community
What kind of community is important to you?
Community is based on sharing and mutual support.
The type of sharing will be in one or more of four categories.
Interests
such as based on stage of life (raising children) to creating a beautiful community to hobbies like skiing, golf, or collecting stamps or lifelong learning (and occasionally socializing.)
Values
as exemplified in a school community or a religious community
Goals
improving your language skills, getting better at a sport or a team trying to win a sports competition.
Cause (Mission)
coming together to solve a problem or support a cause such as global health that often requires teamwork and broad collaboration.