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

By Radha Agrawal

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523502053
• ISBN13: 9781523502059
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Your Primer for real connection

This is a well written and researched book on the importance of real human connection and how to achieve it through building community. It's partly a workbook, with exercises throughout to help one to identify values and interests and to seek and create community activities with the very people you resonate with. As a book club read, members might even be inspired to start connecting beyond the usual bookclub activities. In an age when we need to get away from our digital screens this is a worthy guide.