All I can is that I found my tribe (a Burning Man theme camp/artist collective/event crew) by repeatedly showing up at parties and events in my local music unde

All I can is that I found my tribe (a Burning Man theme camp/artist collective/event crew) by repeatedly showing up at parties and events in my local music underground scene. Eventually we were all comfortable enough that I was welcomed into the friend group with open arms and they asked me if I wanted to camp with them at a local festival. Fast forward several years and we're all super tight and have been through some serious shit together -- deaths, police scares, drug scares, you name it. After enough of rolling with this crew I am regularly recognized when I go out to other events by people I met and partied with once or twice, and then they introduce me to their friends, and suddenly I have even more people to talk to and befriend. It becomes a virtuous cycle. I consider myself an introvert and prefer staying in most nights. But most people think of me as a hard-partying Hollywood type. I can only attribute that to simply showing up. (Though the pandemic has taught me I might actually be one of those introvert-extrovert hybrids, the "omnivert") So if there's one thing that I know works, it is persistently showing up to things that have the kind of people you want to meet.