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Will Storr - The Status Game - On Human Life and How to Play It

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Do We Choose the Status Games That We Want to Play?

Do we consciusly choose the status games that we want to play? And if so, what is it based on? Thatn excellent question. Our preferences are am heavilymbased in our particular geno, and that's the kind of accident of birth,. So im, like, for me, i'm never going to be am. When i was young, i wanted to be a pop star. That's my first ambition. I tried to ma tridarand i had zero, i'd no talent, whatever. It remains at th age of forty seven, the only songaelld o serits embarrassing. You knowtat ht, those are the games which

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