
How much of our behaviour is status-seeking?
Not Overthinking
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Are You Playing the Status Game in School?
status seeking is a fundamental human behavior and we're all going to be doing it to varying degrees whether it's our hunger games thing whereby survival happens to confer a status benefit or lip syncing to tracks on musically. We are all playing a status game in some form or another but it's worth recognizing that and being at least semi-intraspective about it. When making major life decisions, try to minimize the role of status in that and trying to get at the more wholesome meaning behind it. Do you have any insights or funny things that you discovered this week? Share them with state-to-see again by tweeting us @thisissthestate.
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