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#374 - Will Storr - How To Play The Status Game

Modern Wisdom

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Dominance, Virtue and Success - The Three Main Games of Human Life

What are some of the qualities that people should try to develop if they want to be a virtuous, high status individual? Well, i don't ont tous you know, one ofthe, one of the things that i kind of looked at was, ok, so, you know, if there is this thing as the status game, how should we behave? So i read the literature on they call it an optimal presentation, i think, or self presentation. How we should ar e present to people if we were to be received well socially. And it was very interesting, because when you looked at what they were saying, it did cohere round this idea of dominance, virtue and success

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