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Learn to love the Moat of Low Status - by Cate Hall

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It hurts, but less than you think

This post is an excerpt from my forthcoming book (and builds on a couple paragraphs in my original post on agency). I’ll be running a few excerpts here in the next couple months, in hopes of getting feedback on the kinds of content people are excited to see in the book (which is a signal about what to expand or scale back). Let me know what you think! Fear of being temporarily low in social status stops human beings from living richer lives to an unbelievable degree. It happens on the micro scale, when a dance party doesn’t get started because nobody wants to be the first person on the…

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