Foolish success

happens overnight

The voice in my head is likely a podcast.

I’m addicted.

Whether driving to find some waves to play in or washing dishes there is always someone in my ear.

Sam Harris is a favorite of mine.

Recently on his Making Sense Podcast¹, Sam hosted Will Storr. The focus of their discussion was on status games. I hate status games. I refuse to play them. This, according to Storr is just another status play. It’s a way of saying - I have so much status that I don’t need it. Though Storr, looking for status games will likely find them everywhere, he has a point.

Peeling back the onion on myself, I’ve realized I have a particular blind spot around just how status obsessed I am. A simple look at how and what kind of status games are played in the circles that I travel has been a big ‘ah-ha’ for me lately.

The three main spheres of status games according to Storr are 1: Spiritual, 2: Virtue based and 3: Success focused.

What really shines in this is that all three are necessarily relational. Who defies sp…