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

Modern Wisdom

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The Story Telling Brain

Is it low status behavior to talk openly about status like his, acknowledging status motives a low status signal? Yes, that's a really weird one. It obviously is. You know, people don't like to think am of themselves as only only do this for status. We readily recognize it in our enemiesbut we hate recognizing it in ourselves. And so i've talked about the idea of the brains of the hero maker. It takes all the messy realities of aigtoday life and conjures up this heroic story of self athat explains who we are the best possible.

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