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What's your status?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Playing the Status Games in Cultural Environment

When people are born, they have half finished brains. And so much of that is learning how to play the status games in cultural environment. In adolescence, the brain changes in certain ways that specifically make us highly sensitive to the status judgments of the people around us. So, you know, we are vulnerable, and we keep being vulnerable. The near liberal selft is really just a way of trying to explore who we are to day in the west.

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