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Jun 2019
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How much of our behaviour is status-seek...

Ali & Taimur Abdaal
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In this episode, we discuss the concept of social status, and wonder to what extent the signalling of status contributes to our own behaviours. We talk about how our schoolboy days were defined by status games, and think about how we might work to minimise our psyche’s reliance on social capital. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and ... Show More
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