Notes from
-- Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton
*people tend to be nice to us according to the amount of status we have.
*we’re not good at remaining confident about ourselves if other people don’t seem to like or respect us very much.
*For most of history, low expectations were viewed as both normal and wise.
*It is perhaps as unlikely that we could rival the success of Bill Gates as that we could in the seventeenth century have become as powerful as Louis XIV. Unfortunately though, it no longer feels unlikely.
-- Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton
*people tend to be nice to us according to the amount of status we have.
*we’re not good at remaining confident about ourselves if other people don’t seem to like or respect us very much.
*For most of history, low expectations were viewed as both normal and wise.
*It is perhaps as unlikely that we could rival the success of Bill Gates as that we could in the seventeenth century have become as powerful as Louis XIV. Unfortunately though, it no longer feels unlikely.
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