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What's your status?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Are There Infinite Variety of Status Games?

The greatest predictor of subjective well being, or happiness, is respect and admiration within one's own iu. We really do ultimately care more about status than in money or things. Money hasn't been around long enough for us to crave it so we play status games instead. There are infinite varieties of status games to play - they don't have to be money. It can be a ud ronos the world by being an kind of eco warrior. Or it can be that you're a buddhist and you're pursuing that and you're rising up the hierarchy of the buddisk unity.

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