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icon:: 📖 purchased:: Jul 19th, 2023 start:: Jul 19th, 2023 end:: published:: length:: author:: cover:: reading-time:: score:: - - Highlights - To admit to being motivated by improving our rank risks making others think less of us, which loses us rank. #Status - So our awareness of our desire for status eats itself. We readily recognise it in rivals and even use it as a method of insult – which, ironically, is status play: an attempt to downgrade others and thereby raise ourselves up. - We can feel the velvet touch of status repeatedly throughout the course of a single conversation or in the glance of a passing stranger. Thought on Boston - Isolation damages us so profoundly it can change who we are. It can force us into a ‘defensive crouch’, writes psychologist Professor John Cacioppo, in which we seek to fend off the threat of further rejection. Our perceptions of other people become warped. They start to appear ‘more critical, competitive, denigrating, or otherwise unwelcoming’. These faulty interpretations ‘quickly become expectations’. We can become scrappy, bitter and negative, a mindset that ‘leads to greater marital strife, more run-ins with neighbours, and more social problems overall’. Books/Notes from Underground - To our brains, status is a resource as real as oxygen or water. When we lose it, we break. - Block Reference -