STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?
The Next Big Idea
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I'm a Writer, but I've Got Status to Spare.
Even those writers who I look up to and think, oh, if only I could be that successful, you know, part of my brain thinks they must be so happy. But it's not true because they're not competing with me. They're competing with other writers who are also super successful. So they're no more happy. It's actually much harder for them to maintain their levels of status than it is for most people. You've got status to spare, but we're all kind of fragile in these ways. Yeah.
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