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If you'd like to expose yourself to more diversity: Take an art class or join a makerspace or hackerspace, the creativity and different value systems of the people there will blow your mind. Study the values of another religion. Learn another language. Volunteer at a homeless shelter, food bank, or other community service organization. People who engage in these activities are often a self-selecting group of people who might be optimizing for objectives different than what you usually do. Take classes at a community college, and find people involved in the extracurricular activities (eg: engineering clubs, math clubs, philosophy clubs). Unlike 4-year colleges, people in community colleges come from all different walks of life and backgrounds. There are a lot of flaky people, but also some really motivated high-schoolers or seniors. If you'd like more intellectual rigor: Take a philosophy class or join a philosophy club. You might find people who are really interested in questioning everything and debating in ways that will shatter your assumptions and change your worldview. Start following people who are involved in scientific research, maybe do some research yourself. In addition, some people started a Hacker News Learns discourse group which you might be interested in joining: https://discord.gg/WyRBDGgeCG It covers all types of interesting topics ranging from economics and history to soft skills, mathematics, philosophy, and personal knowledge management (Zettelkasten and related systems) and I've met some really interesting people from around the world there. Also, +1 to special interest forums as others have mentioned here, although those tend to go very deep into a particular topic. |