
How much of our behaviour is status-seeking?
Not Overthinking
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Are You Playing a Status Game?
I'm playing the status game, but I don't go about status games. You've got me locking me up, your honor. The choice is between some kind of head andism where you're sort of giving into your desires versus not doing so. If it's a sustainable kind of status seeking, go for it, man. But if it's the kind ofstatus seeking that leads to ultimate discontentment then there's no harm in it at all. It's free pleasure. And yeah, fine. As he said, if you can sustain that, if you've got the sort of income and the sort of lifestyle that can comfortably sustain that forever than by all means go for it.
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