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

Smart People Podcast

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Status Is the Need to Feel Valuable

People need to feel valued. They need to feel that the people they share their lives with see them as a valuable person. When we don't feel valued, we get depressed, we get ill. If you go for status, everything else gets better - this is an ancient and elemental rule of human brains.

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