We crave belonging. As crazy-distracting and decisive as the world is, it’s
easy to forget this simple fact. Deep down we want to be accepted and feel
part of a tribe. I had an amazing opportunity to dig into what it takes to
connect to very different groups by talking to someone who has done the
extreme version of this. Bruce Parry had travelled to some of the most
remote places on planet Earth and inserted himself into wildly foreign
communities. For some of these tribes, meeting him was “first contact” of
any outsider not part of their tribe. Imagine making connection with groups
of people where you don’t speak their language, look very different, don’t
eat their food or wear their clothes. How would you do it? What could you
learn about yourself by making those connections?