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Community Building with Conflicting Personalities

Avoiding Pitfalls and Resolving Disputes to Reach a Common Goal

Gem Blackthorn
Thorn Path Lit
6 min readJan 22, 2025

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An interesting couple of days we’ve been having…

I’ve been hearing a lot of people say “We need community now more than ever” a lot the past couple of days, but few people have explained how to build community if you’ve never been a part of a group before (outside of high school, at least).

Anticipating this moment, I wrote at length about the importance of community and community building in 2024. I’ll leave some additional links at the end, but the article below has some practical ways to go about it.

Today I want to share miscellaneous advice for working towards a common goal with a diverse cast of people with different points of view. Some of this advice may appear contradictory, but the real advice is to somewhere in the middle.

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Gem Blackthorn
Gem Blackthorn

Written by Gem Blackthorn

📚 Marketing & Content Strategist 🌙 Occasional Poet

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