This is true. Non-junk status activity requires real sustained effort. It’s not always fun, progress can be slow, and your limitations will be exposed in ways that can’t be dreamed away. The weight-lifting higher status men keep emphasizing is a perfect example. The health & aesthetic benefits carry status, but that first year is brutal.
Focus on something long term. Leverage the tendency towards monomania to your advantage. Then the struggle becomes merely a means to an end.
Credit to Mark Queppet for coming up with the term. Very true point about high status men and video games. Alex Becker, a very succesful entrepreneur, actually makes and plays video games as a hobby. He knows when the games are taking up too much of his brain chemicals better spent on his business and then takes a break for a while. It is rather strange to consider, but fun things really can spoil our status and pleasure appetites.
Very good application of this concept to status. The fake and sgl always tends to obscure and replace the good, beautiful, and true. The GBT is difficult to obtain, but once obtained the false and sgl become transparent and worse than tasteless.
Status isn't much different than money, in that if you pursue it for its own sake, that is fine, but you may end up like the dog that catches the car. Now what do you do with it?
This is NOT an argument against your mission, instead it is pointing out that along with the method, you may want to have an additional objective in mind, which you may already have.
It could be the journey itself is more important that the destination. I pursued certain objectives in this way, and when I reached them, there wasn't really a payoff. I had to go find another process to turn into a goal.
You are correct about junk status, which is a good term for it. It is like cheap credit. You get the item today, but you don't really own it outright, and you are always the servant to a lender.
It is more about the journey definitely. Mark Queppet talks about the importance of not tying your sense of status to specific outcomes but processes. If someone decides to weigh their status against achieving a goal, they are going to feel inadequate 99% of the way there. If you tie your status to doing your duty, which you can decide to do any time, you can get that real status right away, even in small quantities.
Also very good example with not really owning junk status. That is what it feels like after binge playing video games.
This is true. Non-junk status activity requires real sustained effort. It’s not always fun, progress can be slow, and your limitations will be exposed in ways that can’t be dreamed away. The weight-lifting higher status men keep emphasizing is a perfect example. The health & aesthetic benefits carry status, but that first year is brutal.
Focus on something long term. Leverage the tendency towards monomania to your advantage. Then the struggle becomes merely a means to an end.
Junk Status is great rhetoric. In the same way that junk food is non-nourishing and will leave you hungry for more junk.
Yes, high status men can play a lot of video games. But they also go outside, go to the gym and don't draw their identity from the screen.
Credit to Mark Queppet for coming up with the term. Very true point about high status men and video games. Alex Becker, a very succesful entrepreneur, actually makes and plays video games as a hobby. He knows when the games are taking up too much of his brain chemicals better spent on his business and then takes a break for a while. It is rather strange to consider, but fun things really can spoil our status and pleasure appetites.
Very good application of this concept to status. The fake and sgl always tends to obscure and replace the good, beautiful, and true. The GBT is difficult to obtain, but once obtained the false and sgl become transparent and worse than tasteless.
Junk status can be useful in social settings, but mostly it's all digital and worthless these days.
Status isn't much different than money, in that if you pursue it for its own sake, that is fine, but you may end up like the dog that catches the car. Now what do you do with it?
This is NOT an argument against your mission, instead it is pointing out that along with the method, you may want to have an additional objective in mind, which you may already have.
It could be the journey itself is more important that the destination. I pursued certain objectives in this way, and when I reached them, there wasn't really a payoff. I had to go find another process to turn into a goal.
You are correct about junk status, which is a good term for it. It is like cheap credit. You get the item today, but you don't really own it outright, and you are always the servant to a lender.
It is more about the journey definitely. Mark Queppet talks about the importance of not tying your sense of status to specific outcomes but processes. If someone decides to weigh their status against achieving a goal, they are going to feel inadequate 99% of the way there. If you tie your status to doing your duty, which you can decide to do any time, you can get that real status right away, even in small quantities.
Also very good example with not really owning junk status. That is what it feels like after binge playing video games.