Constructive disagreement and dissent are vital to well-functioning groups and societies, write Peter Coleman and Pearce Godwin
, which allowed us to check on our own level of comfort when taking social risks in a group, and to consider the possible unforeseen consequences of doing so.I focused on my experiences at my workplace, Columbia University, for this exercise. Intellectual freedom is supposedly celebrated in American universities, but my “social courage assessment” revealed how hard it had gotten for me to find the guts to go against the grain at work.
This, of course, is fertile soil for feeling drawn to groups that welcome us—even recruit us— by offering us a clear, vivid sense of meaning and belonging with messages like “you are special, underappreciated, and under threat.” So, today many of us are facing the one-two punch of feeling excluded and alone., which measures your current level of motivation to be accepted by others and avoid being shunned. Increasing your awareness of this need is one way to mitigate its influence.
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