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How and Why We Play Social Status Games - Will Storr

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

CHAPTER

Is Everyone Playing the Status Game?

We all play different status games, and we all have different criteria for claiming stat sand. A classic example would be a cars. You know, if you're amiddle class person, driving a shinyng houdy is seen as a high status thing. But if you 're above that, in the social classsesn an aristo, that's seen as a low status. That's ther theyre showin the game. And then what happens in early adolescence is our brains begin to change such that we become much more interested in social status,. In the sense of what our pr groups think of us. Ismuch less about what we've got, i wants, i want,

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