Even a Lone Wolf Like Me Needs Community

The smartest and most successful people I know actively seek community.

They hire coaches, join peer networking groups, take vacations with friends and colleagues, and actively build their community.

I say this as someone who has traditionally done relatively few of these things.

Over time, I have come to realize this is like swimming upstream in a raging river while everyone else is taking a Town Car.

Our world is too complex to go it alone.

Wait—to put that more accurately, you can go it alone but your results will be a pale imitation of success. Together, we can achieve great things. Alone, we can scrape by.

So I am changing my ways. Networking more. Actively trying to make friends. Collaborating.

I bet that quite a few people reading this issue have been making the same mistake: trying to be a lone wolf.

Just because you are a company of one doesn't mean you must go it alone.

Just because you work in a cubicle at the back of the back of your office doesn't mean you can't leave the office a LOT to meet others and grow your network.

(It's okay to be a lone wolf, just as long as you don't act like one all the time.)

So if we are not yet connected—and you subscribe to this newsletter—I'd love to connect with you. Please send me an invitation with a quick note.

And please be sure to ring the bell in the upper right-hand corner of my profile, so you will receive invitations to online gatherings I'm going to start to hold in the weeks ahead.

Bruce Kasanoff is a?social media ghostwriter ?and a thinking partner for entrepreneurs.