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Will Storr - The Status Game - On Human Life and How to Play It

Smart People Podcast

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The Stage Cam Hurts Me Everyday

Esye: How can we live a better life, a more purposeful, authentic life, recognizing this inherent need for status will always be with us? Yayou make an intersting point about you. If that was truei if the ambitions of the buddhists were realized and it became universal, it would be the end of progress. It would be a disaster. She says there are three basically different kinds of status game the humans play. The dominance game is very animalistic but also good at playing to other. Two two forms of status game include virtue and success. Esye: These people who pursue competence um to extreme ends and become amazing at what they do

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