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Should You Play Status Games? [Jenny Blake]

The Examined Life

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Status Anxiety

I think there is a certain awareness that when you go, like Luke Burgess talks about this and wanting another thing amazing book that I love in this area of conversation. And if we could just pause before we keep acquiring things on the hedonic treadmill, something you write about all the time,. We could at least be a little more intentional. Am I really pouring my time, money, energy and attention into things that nourish me personally versus things that are peers might acknowledge from the outside or peers, anybody at any level of society might acknowledge as being valuable? That's one way to look at it.

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