How status matters to you as a human being #shorts

24 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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TJ Walker (YouTube #shorts) explains that as mammals humans are programmed to care about status. He lists common status markers (expensive cars, wine collections, Ivy League credentials, large homes, IQ) and advises being aware of this tendency and choosing forms of status that help others and increase personal happiness, ending with the exhortation to "follow the TJ Walker habit."

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You and I, as human beings are mammals, and mammals are programmed to care about status, like it or not. Now it's easy to look at someone else and laugh at their attempts to justify status. Oh, he thinks he's better because he has an expensive car, but we're all guilty of this. You may place more status on your wine collection, someone else might place status on the Ivy League credentials of their children, someone else on the size of their home, someone else on an IQ that never really leads to anything. But we all seek status. The more you can be aware of that and try to seek out forms of status that actually help other people and give yourself happiness, the better. Please follow the TJ Walker habit.