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Eric Siu explains why chasing status through numbers and external validation leads to burnout. The only way to win, he argues, is to stop playing the game altogether.
Eric Siu explains why chasing status through numbers and external validation leads to burnout. The only way to win, he argues, is to stop playing the game altogether.
You can stop the power struggle at any time. And so I think this applies here, right? Yeah. We sign up for status games, I think, without realizing we signed up for 'em. And this kind of ties into like chasing numbers. Like the chasing numbers is the status game in the content business. And it's very easy to get sucked into that and lose track of that there are other things that matter. And I think that chip on my shoulder that I mentioned earlier of like proving I'm legit, proving this is a real business, proving like being able to go home to Christmas and be like, yeah, I actually do have a job. I think I didn't realize that that put me, I signed up for a status game and I wasn't aware I was signing up for it. And status games as a rule burn you out, like, 'cause you can't win 'em and it's never enough. So at some point, the only way to win 'em is to stop playing.
