This sounds interesting to me. I would say that my primary motivation for something like this is more about "community" rather than friendship. I believe that what draws us to friendship *is* community, a sense of support and caring connection. So the question is, what would that look like? I'm definitely motivated more by "be" followed by "do." Have isn't really on my list. I don't need more; I need deeper. So I'd like to hear more.
I really like how you differentiate between friendship and community, and how they go together. Evolutionarily speaking, it would make sense to have community be the draw for friendship... the collective village coming first, before individual connections between people. When it comes to events, it's definitely the community that draws me to attend (and then people become friends in the process).
Thanks for deepening my perspective. And this would make for a great quote: "I don't need more; I need deeper."
All of this resonates with me. Friendship is definitely the foundation of my business. And, working monk could totally describe me, but I prefer “Warrior Buddha.”
One thing that my weird brain threw up against the frontal lobe was:
Is that the difference between a monk who offers seekers time and provides wisdom versus the silent, meditating, non-speaking "cave-monk"?
I think it is. Now it gets really weird (I might have an ESL issue here):
It is one thing to be stuck or contemplating solutions without success that leads one to seek a working monk. What happens if you have a group of people who all love to adopt the role of "working monk" for their areas of deep reflection, study, believes, etc. - will that create a "working monkies group"?
I love the idea and what would most interest me and why I would love to be allowed to join is the opportunity to help each other, or as @Miguel wrote: community
You mentioned that we select who in our group of connections we are willing to elevate to the "friend level".
Maybe there is a way to determine over time if the "working monkies" are friends or become friends and help each other or grow into a group that finds its main purpose in helping others.
The idea of friendship as a business foundation for me is also intriguing because when I support my friends or they support me, we are not expecting renumeration from each other.
We are freely giving to the best of our ability - one friend helping another to accomplish something.
This help can be because our friend does not have the skill or knowledge, but also because certain things require more than a person to complete something in a reasonable time. I recently moved and recall how much I appreciated the help of my friends.
I can see a business grow amazingly based on friends helping each other and it would be different than creating a partnership where the profit motive that the business purpose has is the driving factor and often what holds the people together.
Whenever the "working monkies" meet and if you allow me in, I would love to join and see if I can be elevated to the friend level. 😉
This sounds interesting to me. I would say that my primary motivation for something like this is more about "community" rather than friendship. I believe that what draws us to friendship *is* community, a sense of support and caring connection. So the question is, what would that look like? I'm definitely motivated more by "be" followed by "do." Have isn't really on my list. I don't need more; I need deeper. So I'd like to hear more.
Thanks for sharing this, Miguel!
I really like how you differentiate between friendship and community, and how they go together. Evolutionarily speaking, it would make sense to have community be the draw for friendship... the collective village coming first, before individual connections between people. When it comes to events, it's definitely the community that draws me to attend (and then people become friends in the process).
Thanks for deepening my perspective. And this would make for a great quote: "I don't need more; I need deeper."
All of this resonates with me. Friendship is definitely the foundation of my business. And, working monk could totally describe me, but I prefer “Warrior Buddha.”
Oh, that's so cool to hear that you have made friendship the foundation of your business, Kelsey! Thanks for sharing!
I love the term "working monk"
One thing that my weird brain threw up against the frontal lobe was:
Is that the difference between a monk who offers seekers time and provides wisdom versus the silent, meditating, non-speaking "cave-monk"?
I think it is. Now it gets really weird (I might have an ESL issue here):
It is one thing to be stuck or contemplating solutions without success that leads one to seek a working monk. What happens if you have a group of people who all love to adopt the role of "working monk" for their areas of deep reflection, study, believes, etc. - will that create a "working monkies group"?
I love the idea and what would most interest me and why I would love to be allowed to join is the opportunity to help each other, or as @Miguel wrote: community
You mentioned that we select who in our group of connections we are willing to elevate to the "friend level".
Maybe there is a way to determine over time if the "working monkies" are friends or become friends and help each other or grow into a group that finds its main purpose in helping others.
The idea of friendship as a business foundation for me is also intriguing because when I support my friends or they support me, we are not expecting renumeration from each other.
We are freely giving to the best of our ability - one friend helping another to accomplish something.
This help can be because our friend does not have the skill or knowledge, but also because certain things require more than a person to complete something in a reasonable time. I recently moved and recall how much I appreciated the help of my friends.
I can see a business grow amazingly based on friends helping each other and it would be different than creating a partnership where the profit motive that the business purpose has is the driving factor and often what holds the people together.
Whenever the "working monkies" meet and if you allow me in, I would love to join and see if I can be elevated to the friend level. 😉