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Originally Posted by 180  Increasing status
Higher status is the ability to influence
Postively - having resources/ depended on
Negatively - Harming you
Most of us are not in the mafia, so negative sources are high status can mostly be ignored. In order to have high status Let them KNOW that you have something that they can use or they need. An example of this is being
1) Well connected
2) Having money
3) Being artistic
4) Doing things that nobody else wants to do
#4 is a funny one. Surprisingly it can be one of the easiest way to gain status AND it increases your self esteem. For example, none of my friends wanted to call for pizza. They don't like talking to people. So I'd always be the one to order pizza. I was... pizza caller... and it actually raised my status among my friends, as lame as it was.
You'll see this in workplaces. The person who does the things that nobody wants to do. He/she is the higher status because they do what you can't. Although, you get off by being lazy... that person becomes important to you because without them YOU would have to do the work. They just proved to be important to you. This is kind of what leadership innately is. Although most of us WANT to be leader, we don't want the responsibilities of leadership.
We all think it's glamor and glitz, but we never stop to realize leaders put up with the most crap and do the most crap. That's why they are the leader. Their abilities to motivate people and get them moving is just part of it. They also take the bad things that come with being in charge.
Most of us are too lazy to be leaders, we all want to become one but in the end if really offered the choice and knowing full well what being leader is, most of us would rather stay at home and scratch our balls. |
Nicely put, 180!
#4 puts my hopes high, too. I'm usually the weird one who does what others don't. The question is, how to do it by becoming a leader instead of the kid who gets the garbage out.
And the last line...I wonder how immature phrases can sum up the meaning of life so well XD LOL