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The Importance of Mastery
"I've seen pretty much both ends of the status spectrum. So in school, close to the most pitiful person there had the lowest number of friends," he says. "Then through probably 16, 17 was kind of a middling 18, 19, 20, very, very quickly ascended to be one of the best known people in a city that's got a million people in it." He asks whether some sort of sense of mastery downstream from being good at something is going to get you status. 'It helps build on your children's interests, create self-esteem because life is about resilience'