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Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life Kindle Edition

by Radha Agrawal (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Get ready to focus on the single most important thing you can do to live a happy, healthy, and successful life: BELONG.

“Read this book, do what it says, and discover exactly where you fit in.”
—John Mackey, Co-founder and CEO, Whole Foods Market
 
“If you want to belong, read this book.”
—Deepak Chopra, MD
 
“From the moment I opened this book I was hooked. This book is caring and tender, challenging and action-driven. It is now on my recommendation list.”
—Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs, host of Where Should We Begin? podcast
 
How is it that the internet connects us to a world of people, yet so many of us feel more isolated than ever? That we have hundreds, even thousands of friends on social media, but not a single person to truly confide in? Radha Agrawal calls this “community confusion,” and in Belong she offers every reader a blueprint to find their people and build and nurture community, because connectedness—as more and more studies show—is our key to happiness, fulfillment, and success.
 
A book that’s equal parts inspiring and interactive, and packed with prompts, charts, quizzes, and full-color illustrations, Belong takes readers on a two-part journey. Part one is Going IN—a gentle but intentional process of self-discovery and finding out your true energy levels and VIA (values, interests, and abilities). Part two is Going OUT—building on all that you’ve learned about yourself to find those few special people who feed your soul, and discovering, or creating, the ever-widening groups that align with your aims and desires.
 
As the Co-founder and CEO of the popular global morning dance community Daybreaker, Radha Agrawal developed an immense offline community with her team of Community Catalysts in 25 cities and on a dozen college campuses around the world by creating a physical space for people to connect, self-express, sweat, and dance. Now, Radha offers the life-changing strategies, tips, and tricks for making friends that will light your fire and give you the exhale of  “Ahh, I’m home.” 

“Radha has written a book that’s fun to read, easy to digest, and embodies deep wisdom. This isn’t just a book I’m endorsing. This is a book that I want to buy multiple copies of because I have so many friends and acquaintances that will benefit from it. It’s the first book I couldn't wait to finish reading it so I could give my copy to one of my friends to read the same day.”
—Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and author of Delivering Happiness
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It’s time to find where you belong.

Belong offers every reader a blueprint to find their people and build and nurture community, because connectedness—as more and more studies show—is our key to happiness, fulfillment, and success.

A book that’s equal parts inspiring and interactive, and packed with prompts, charts, quizzes, and full-color illustrations, Belong takes readers on a journey of self-discovery and building on all that they’ve learned about themselves to find the people who feed their soul.

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Read Radha’s story on how she grew more passionate about creating a community and learned the importance of belonging.

There are exercises throughout the book for readers to use to reflect on each chapter. This one asks readers to gently recognize their personal history in order to move forward and be intentional about what they want.

There are four main brain chemicals responsible for your happiness and energy levels—dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. Get to know your brain chemistry so you can understand how to protect, reset, and increase your energy.

When you are ready to be proactive and create a community-building event, use the six steps from Radha’s community event starter kit.

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If you want to belong, read this book.
Deepak Chopra, M.D.

From the moment I opened this book I was hooked. Radha is that friend whispering in your ear, assuring you that not only does she understand your feelings of loneliness and your wish to belong, she’ll also take you gently but firmly by the hand to act, to connect, to create purpose, and to build your community. This book is caring and tender, challenging and action-driven.  It is now on my recommendation list.
Esther Perel
Author, Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs,  host of Where Should We Begin podcast

Radha wrote a book that's fun to read, easy to digest, and embodies deep wisdom. This isn't just a book I'm endorsing. This is a book that I want to buy multiple copies of because I have so many friends and acquaintances that will benefit from it.  It’s the first time I couldn't wait to finish reading a book so that I could give my copy to one of my friends to read the same day. 
Tony Hsieh
CEO of Zappos. Author of Delivering Happiness

This year America’s happiness dropped as healthcare costs continue to soar.  Radha has a solution for both. Her engaging, high-energy approach to connecting people, helping them provide purpose, and finding their community is an antidote more powerful than any pharmaceutical.   Belong combines engaging story-telling, solid research, and an easy prescription for finding your tribe and harnessing its incredible healing powers.  Read it and live longer, better!
Dan Buettner
National Geographic fellow and multiple New York Times Bestselling author of the Blue Zones books

Belong answers two of the most important questions of our time regarding loneliness, depression, and the disintegration of family and community. How do we belong to ourselves?  And how do we create and belong to extraordinary communities that support and uplift us?  Radha Agrawal provides a clear and honest roadmap for teaching us how to create inner and outer belonging, which in the end is all that truly matters in life. 
Mark Hyman, MD
Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?
 
 Few people know how to live life with such authentic expression as Radha does. In this book she shows us, in a clear and fun way, how and why this way of life can lead us all to the very thing we as humans desire the most: to belong.
Alexander Ljung
Founder Chairman, SoundCloud
 
Radha Agrawal is at the center of building one of the most important movements in America: the creation of deep community among a population of increasingly disconnected citizens. Belong takes the powerful lessons she’s learned through her remarkable entrepreneurial journey and creates an essential guidebook for anyone who wants to create or be part of a thriving community among any group or around any cause.
Ben Rattray  
Founder CEO Change.org

Radha was born to write this book. She has spent the last decade maniacally focused on figuring out the blueprint for community building and this book cracks the code. Her illustrations make the book approachable and fun to read. I am so unbelievably proud of her achievement.  It will help everyone find their tribes. 
Miki Agrawal 
Founder of Tushy, Thinx, Wild. Author of Disrupt-her and Do Cool Sh*t 

About the Author

Radha is a community force. She is the co-Founder, CEO and Chief Community Architect of Daybreaker, the early morning dance and wellness move-ment that currently holds events in 25 cities and over a dozen college campuses around the world with a community of almost half a million people. She is a successful entrepreneur (Co-Founder THINX, LiveItUp), author, globe trotting speaker, DJ, inventor, and investor.

Her new book BELONG answers the questions, "how the heck do I find my people?" and "How do I create large and meaningful communities in the real world?". She spent 18 months synthesizing her key methods for community building, peeling back the curtain on exactly what she and her team did (and continues to do) at Daybreaker so that anyone interested in creating their own community could have a blueprint for how to do it.

She was named by MTV as “one of 8 women who will change the world.” Radha lives in Brooklyn NY with her love Eli (a baby on the way) and her twin sister Miki – and lots of family and friends within a few blocks. You can most often find her tinkering with new social experiments, community and experience design projects, speaking around the world, or on the dance floor at Daybreaker in New York City (if she’s not dancing at sunrise in another part of the world.)

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B075G4W7MV
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Workman Publishing Company (September 4, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 4, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 11029 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 233 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Customers find the book enlightening, profound, and highly productive. They say it provides simple but profound exercises to help the reader first go inside themselves. Readers also mention the book introduces great concepts in finding their true values. They also appreciate the advice and interactive assignments that transform the book about self. Overall, customers describe the book as inspiring and fun.

"...It is more of an inspirational art ride through the factors of belonging, with little artsy road signs pointing to additional directions and people..." Read more

"...and shows up every time.This is an inspiring, honest, and practical manual for creating the kind of communities we all need and crave: ones..." Read more

"...like-minded and like-spirited individuals, and she offers advice and interactive assignments that transform this book about self discovery and self..." Read more

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Customers find the book enjoyable, wonderful, and meaningful. They say it's an energetic read that improves and deepens their lives. Readers also mention the book is excellent as an intro or refresher course on belonging.

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This book is a straight forward and enjoyable read. It provides simple but profound exercises to help the reader first go inside themselves to proactively identify what they're looking for in a community and/or core group of friends. It then walks you through the steps to using those insights to either find/join a group and even scale a community. Radha's transparency and vulnerability in sharing her own journey's ups and downs helps you realize you're not alone in feeling like you haven't found your people. If you get the opportunity to go to one of her events, I highly recommend it! The one in Phoenix was amazing and there are now groups and communities springing up as a result!!
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Alicia Perez
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, simple and yet complete.
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024
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This is excellent as an intro or as a refresher course on belonging. It is more of an inspirational art ride through the factors of belonging, with little artsy road signs pointing to additional directions and people to follow up on in any area. You land at the end feeling reconnected to the vision you had or a new vision to hold on to. I will keep this on my shelf for a long time - it will inspire me and inform anyone who picks it up, without being taxing or weighty, or too simple.
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Dr Ali Binazir
5.0 out of 5 stars A much-needed manifesto for creating heart-centered connection & community
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2018
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Ever felt like you haven't quite found your community yet, the place where you can fully flourish as the best possible version of you? No need to wait anymore. In "Belong", Radha Agrawal shows you how you roll your own.
Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (1943) was pretty cool, but let's face it -- it could use an update. Radha does just that, putting belonging right at the bottom of the pyramid amongst humans' most basic needs. Especially in a world where most Americans live alone, have few to no confidants, and are disengaged from public service, connection is urgent medicine. As Jack Kornfield puts it, we are in the midst of a crisis of the heart. And the healing must come from us.
To that end, Agrawal offers practical solutions for cultivating healthy relationships and creating communities of belonging. First, get to know yourself a little better and become aware of your Green Ego (kind) vs Red Ego (mean). Listen less to the Mean Girls of comparison, perfectionism and judgment; hang with the Soul Sisters of inspiration, gratitude and curiosity. Know your values, abilities, and interests. Cut out negative people from your life. Ban gossip. Show up.
For me, the real gold of the book was in Agrawal's 6-step framework for intentional community building, followed by the CRAWL method. I have been attending Daybreaker events in 4 different cities since their inception 4 years ago, and they embody everything the book says. Core values, Ritual, Aesthetics, Why/What, Language: it totally works!
I particularly appreciate Agrawal's sounding the alarm about how our supremely addictive devices are wrecking our relationships. Her antidote: be the F-Yeah Friend, the one who says "F-Yeah!" and shows up every time.
This is an inspiring, honest, and practical manual for creating the kind of communities we all need and crave: ones that nurture our spirit. With heart and pragmatism born from deep experience, Radha gives us the roadmap. Read it and go make some new friends already.
-- Ali Binazir, M.D., M.Phil., Happiness Engineer and author of  The Tao of Dating: The Smart Woman's Guide to Being Absolutely Irresistible , the highest-rated dating book on Amazon for 4 years, and  Should I Go to Medical School?: An Irreverent Guide to the Pros and Cons of a Career in Medicine
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LaffingKat
4.0 out of 5 stars Offers helpful suggestions, but may appeal more to energetic young extroverts
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018
If you are either feeling like you don’t have enough friends or your friendships aren’t nourishing and supporting you the way you’d like, this book provides guidance on finding friends who will align with your values and interests, understand and accept you, and fill your emotional tank.

If you’re interested in organizing a community, this book offers some practical steps to take and suggests some helpful questions to answer to help you design a sustainable community with a clear goal.

The author provides some amazing statistics and health claims. For example, she noted that a study found that “Having poor social connections is as bad as being an alcoholic and twice as bad as being obese.” Unfortunately, she did not provide a citation for that study, so I was unable to refer to the original source to learn more.

I liked the idea of getting to know yourself better so you can be intentional about choosing compatible friends and community. I love the sections discussing personal and community core values, and how by defining the core values and constraints of a community, “you know if it’s your thing, and if it’s not.” I also liked the idea of selecting your friends and designing your community as an act of “thoughtful energy curation.” I appreciated the helpful reminder that “Expectations are resentments waiting to happen,” as well as the suggestion to turn judgment into curiosity.

I was less fond of the author’s invention of multiple new acronyms, which I had trouble remembering. Also, I think the book will probably appeal more to energetic young extroverts than middle-aged introverts like me who cringe at a phrase the author is fond of which includes a certain obscenity that Amazon reviews cannot reference.

I was provided an ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review. Because I have not seen the final published version, I cannot comment on the final editing and formatting. However, the ARC had minimal proofreading errors, and the quirky formatting and graphics added charm and helped the book stand apart.
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J-OJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful experience that will improve and deepen your life
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2018
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Stop hanging out with the wrong people doing things that don’t fulfill and energize you, and choose how you spend your time and who you spend it with. Find your FYFs — friends who are game for going deep, creating mischief, supporting you unconditionally, etc. Radha Agrawal is here to help you first understand yourself (your true self, not the self you project into the world, if they are different) then find the right tribe to go through life with. The book explains how Agrawal worked hard to find and expand a strong community of like-minded and like-spirited individuals, and she offers advice and interactive assignments that transform this book about self discovery and self love into a very tangible and highly productive guide to creating a much more fulfilling and enjoyable life for yourself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Reviewed in Canada on September 9, 2019
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After watch the Mindvalley talk with the author I decided to buy the book. I love it and it is easily written and great to refer back to.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Game Changer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2019
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I love this book, the creativity, the charts and the step by step encouragement. Smart, tender, honest and funny. Fill out the pages, follow the gentle pacing and encourage yourself back to your natural stream. Brilliant work on loneliness, community and what it means to belong
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Reviewed in India on October 18, 2022
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Really amazing book.
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Devon Harris
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book
Reviewed in Australia on March 21, 2022
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I loved it and my kiddo (aged 7) loved it too. Solid advice for everyone.
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Amanda
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read if you want to start your own community!
Reviewed in Japan on July 15, 2020
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It’s all about the way we feel and the energy we bring!
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